Aug 29, 2018
Coaching People Out Of Downward, Negative Spirals
You are resilient, sturdy, capable, independent, hardy, self-motivated, constantly pushing and challenging the organization to go forward. You don’t need anything in terms of social recognition or internal worth validation from others. You are the leader and you...
Aug 22, 2018
Celebrating Wins When Doing Business In Japan
We imagine we are celebrating our wins, but are we really? I think about myself and I realize, I am not doing it. This is a good reminder for myself, that I should be doing it more often. Japan is a highly risk averse culture, so when we ask people to step out of their...
Aug 15, 2018
Handling Mistakes In Business In Japan
Mistakes happen. The important thing though is how we handle mistakes in Japan? How do you handle mistakes by your staff? We want innovation , we want improvement, we want people stepping out to grow the business. The problem in Japan is making a mistake is taken very...
Aug 8, 2018
Time When Doing Business In Japan
Time is life, time is money and time is your business. Business decisions are glacial here in Japan but buyer expectations of you regarding your response and follow times are exceedingly high. Tokyo especially bustles along. You see it in the mornings. I catch my subway train...
Aug 1, 2018
Delegation In Business In Japan
We know that delegating tasks is important but we have tried it in the past and found it didn’t work well, so we have given up on it. Why didn’t it work well? This usually because of the way we do the delegation. We just dump the task on someone and tell them when we want it, as...