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Episode #176: 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 #175: The Boss's Genius Ideas

Shinya Katanozaka President of ANA Holdings came up with a genius idea. Allow the passengers to order breakf...

Episode #174: Training Women In Japan

Discrimination against women in business in Japan takes many forms. Prime Minister Abe talks about targets f...

Episode #173: Japan - Your Educational Ladder Is On The Wrong Wall

Japanese education includes exciting things like adults screaming abuse, using threatening words, kids mouth...

Episode #172: People Are A Pain

"All of our problems walk on two legs and talk back”. I can’t recall when I first came across this expressio...

Episode #171: Employees As Number One

There is a great Simon Sinek video floating around about how companies say employees are important, but don’...

Episode #170: Gaining Willing Cooperation From Others

The hero’s journey is for the very, very few. I did it my way, I slaved away in a garret and got to the top...

Episode #169: Three Critical Things Entrepreneurs Need

Usually, when we think about how to succeed in our own business, we favour things like sufficient cash flow ...

Episode #168: Real Freedom

Motivational quotes are everywhere and they remind us of useful things we already know, but have forgotten. ...

Episode #167: The 106 Centimeter Cold Caller

Salespeople are world class whiners. They are the most creative group amongst all professions for coming up ...

Episode #166: Keep Your Shtick To Yourself Buddy

Smoothly memorised shtick, elaborate glossy materials, sharp suits, large expensive watches, bleached teeth,...

Episode #165: Stage Fright Got You?

Hands and legs quivering, knees knocking together, face turning red, pulse racing, mind whiting out – this i...

Episode #164: Leaders: Get Off the Chems

Our cave dwelling ancestor past is still with us today. Rather than sabre tooth tigers though, we are reacti...

Episode #163: Dream It

“We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do”. This quote ...

Episode #162: We Won't Follow Bots

Basically your job is toast. There is a machine or there will soon be a machine that can do it faster, bette...

Episode #161: Effective Project Management Rules

Projects have been around for a long time of course and in the modern era we have accumulated a vast amount ...

Episode #160: REAL Leadership

We love acronyms! Our workplaces are thriving with them, such that we can hold extended conversations compos...

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...