Podcast

Episode #577: Seven Points For Leaders When Giving Talks

Recently, my social media has been full of short videos of various politicians and supporters giving talks ...

Episode #576: Twelve Steps To A Win-Win Conflict Resolution Part Two

Twelve Steps To A Win-Win Conflict Resolution Part Two We have looked at some of the steps in Part One, so...

Episode #575: Twelve Steps To A Win-Win Conflict Resolution Part One

“Remember that other people may be totally wrong, but they don’t think so”. This quote from Dale Carnegie s...

Episode #574: Resolving Internal Conflicts In Japan

Business is more fast-paced that ever before in human history. Technology boasting massive computing and co...

Episode #573: What Is “Enclothed Cognition” And Why Does It Matter To Leaders in Japan?

I saw a video recently from Rampley and Co in the UK featuring Caryn Franklin, a Fashion and Identity Comme...

Episode #572: The Leader Is The Face Of The Business In Japan

I meet a lot of CEOs in Japan. I am always out there networking and looking for clients. If they cannot b...

Episode #571: Joe Biden’s Lessons On Destroying Your Leadership Credibility For Japan CEOs

Being an Aussie I don’t have the right to select the next US President or get involved in American politics...

Episode #570: Navigating Going For It And Blowing Yourself Up In Japan

I am a maniac. A less charged descriptor might be an “enthusiast”. Now Japan is a country chock full of e...

Episode #569: Delegate Or Disappear In Business In Japan

They are not making as many Japanese as they used to. Every year we get these headlines about the new lows...

Episode #568: Business Opportunities In Japan

Episode #567: Tough Love Or Fake Praise To Motivate Staff In Japan

This tough love or fake praise alternative is a dubious construct. Are these two alternatives really the on...

Episode #566: How To Influence Engagement In Japan

APAC always ranks low in global engagement surveys. At the very bottom of the APAC calculation sits Japan. ...

Episode #565 People-First Leadership In Japan

Alan Mulally has had a very successful career at Ford and Boeing. Over his 45 years as a leader, he develo...

Episode #564: Handling Underperformance In Japan

I was having lunch with an expat client who has been here about a year and a half. We were talking about p...

Episode #563: Using Dale Carnegie’s Human Relations Principles For Effective Coaching

Effective leaders actively coach their staff and move them through four stages. In Phase One, they create a...

Episode #562: Moving Ideas Into Reality In Japan

Ideas are free and sometimes frivolous. We can brainstorm anything we like and we will come up with a bunc...

Episode #562: Moving Ideas Into Reality In Japan

Ideas are free and sometimes frivolous. We can brainstorm anything we like and we will come up with a bunc...

Episode #561: Creative Problem Solving

Japan has a lot of wisdom to share and one of my favourites is to not start with the solution to a problem....

Episode #560: The Big Badness Of Baidu’s EQ

Founded in 2000, Baidu has 39,800 employees and is one of the largest global AI and internet companies. Ba...

Episode #559: The Creativity Process When Leading In Japan

The era of the boss who had done all the tasks in the section and was the main expert on the business has w...