Podcast

Episode #159: Running A Foreign Business In Japan

Running your own business is challenging anywhere, but Japan adds a bit of spice to the broth. According to...

Episode #158: Good Messages Delivered Badly

Seriously sad really. Our speaker had some excellent points to convey but due to silly basic errors, killed ...

Episode #157: Structured Project Planning

It sounds so obvious that we should have structures for doing our project planning. Projects are part and pa...

Episode #156: Charismatic Leadership

Are you a perpetual student? I am always keen to learn and improve in my business, so I recently participate...

Episode #155: You Don't Want Sales

Clever, shallow, smooth as silk, glib, “rat with a gold tooth” salespeople are the scourge of the earth. The...

Episode #154: Hard Talk Fallacies

You have to tell people how it is or you will lose power and authority. If you swallow what you want to say,...

Episode #153: How To Be A Much Better Leader

“Born to lead” is nonsense. Many things shaped that person in order for them to achieve credibility with oth...

Episode #152: Ancien Regime Corporate Leaders

Sport is a popular source of inspiration for corporate leadership. Coaches attend off-sites and make good mo...

Episode #151: Drucker On Leadership

Peter Drucker has this great quote. “Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusio...

Episode #150: Attitude Control

We can control 100% of our attitude. Yes, but often we don’t. There are few things we can be 100% in control...

Episode #149: Dojo Business Lessons

I have often thought there are so many lessons from the martial arts for our businesses. Here are my musings...

Episode #148: Why Leading Project Teams Is Tough

Projects are too common. Because of this we take them for granted, seeing them as part of everyday work, but...

Episode #147: How To Get Good Ideas

We find it frustrating when we have good ideas or suggestions but all we receive is rejection or even worse ...

Episode #146: Stop Killing Your Sales

What we say and how we say it matters. It matters in life, in families and in business- especially in sales....

Episode #145: Japan's 3 No Ys Society

Sakaiya Taichi, well known author and futurist, made an interesting observation about the current trend of J...

Episode #143: What The Dale Carnegie Course Delivers

The course is amazing. The kaizen on a 104 year old course is even more amazing. This is taken from a live...

Episode #142: We Need Help

The changing role of Executive Assistants and Secretaries reflects the dominance of the keyboard and a DIY a...

Episode #141: The Devil Is In The Details

“The Devil Is In The Detail” saying, reflects ancient wisdom about taking careful notice of small things. Th...

Episode #140: Starting A Business In Japan

Episode #139: The Negotiation Process

“Winning is not a sometime thing. You don’t do things right once in a while…you do them right all of the tim...