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Episode 372: From Ritz-Carlton to Pasona: What Leaders Can Learn About Mood Making

Let’s explore something every leader should be crystal clear about—the mood of the team. When you are sittin...

Episode 371: Why Clients In Japan Rarely Call Back And What Salespeople Can Do About It

Let’s talk about one of the biggest frustrations in sales today—getting clients to actually call us back. In...

Episode 370: Why New Salespeople Fail in Japan — And How to Fix It

Let’s talk about something every sales leader in Japan wrestles with — the expectations we place on new sale...

Episode 369: Corporate Ninjas of Concealment: How Leaders Lose Control

(br>Why Japanese Corporate Scandals Keep Happening — And What Leaders Must Do To Prevent Them ### Why do ...

Episode 368: The Cure for Corporate Cancer: Rethinking Sales Outreach

Greek myths rarely end well. Most are cautionary tales about the Gods toying with humans. The one that best ...

Episode 367: How to Give Your First Major Presentation With Confidence

At some point in our careers, we are asked to give a presentation. It might begin as a simple project update ...

Episode 366: Win the Deal: Negotiating in Japan Without Losing the Relationship (Part Two)

Negotiating in Japan is never just about numbers on a contract. It is about trust, credibility, and ensuring ...

Episode 365: Win The Deal In Japan Without Losing The Relationship

Our image of negotiating tends to be highly influenced by the winner takes all model. This is the transacti...

Episode 364: You Can't Win A Knife Fight With A Slide Deck

Presenting isn’t always adoration, adulation, regard and agreement. Sometimes, we have to go into hostile t...

Episode 363: The Truth About Death By Overwork In Japan

So many sad cases of people dying here in Japan from what is called karoshi and the media constantly talks ...

Episode 362: One Pitch No Matter How Genius, Never Works In Japan

Presenting to buying teams is very tricky in Japan. Because of the convoluted decision making process here,...

Episode 361: Your Outfit Speaks First - Make It Say "Professional"

How should we dress when presenting and does it actually matter? Yep, it matters - particularly in Japan. ...

Episode 360: Back Your Team Or You Break Their Trust

We don’t run perfect organisations stocked with perfect people, led by perfect bosses. There are always goi...

Episode 359: The Sales Trap Crippling Japanese Business

We see Japan as a modern, high tech country very advanced in so many sectors. Sales is not one of them. Co...

Episode 358: Story Magic

Storytelling is one of those things that we all know about, but where we could do a much better job of utili...

Episode 357: The Real Cost Of Stupid People At Work

We are often good talkers, but poor listeners. We have many things we want to say, share, expound and elabor...

Episode 356: How To Win Business With Japanese Buying Teams

Selling to companies in Japan usually means sitting in a meeting room with a single buyer or perhaps two peo...

Episode 355: How To Make Your Employees Actually Like You

We often hear about the need for bosses to do more to engage with their teams. The boss looks at their sched...

Episode 354: Presenting Elicits Valuable Lessons. Capture Them

Today is a good time to start reviewing and reflecting upon the presentations you have over the past few ye...

Episode 353: Build Relationships That Last: Get Your Re-Order Mojo Happening

Here is an important mantra: We don’t want a sale, we want the re-orders. That task however is getting hard...