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THE Leadership Japan Series by Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo Japan

Nov 29, 2023

Success is usually thought to be built on a combination of personal attributes such as intelligence, technical knowledge, street smarts, hard won experience (built on failures from pushing too hard), guts and tenacity.  Our varsity halls offer a vast array of academic knowledge, information, insights,...


Nov 22, 2023

Corporate learning isn’t working. Heroically, time and treasure are being spent by company leaders to improve staff performance. Inherent in that goal is that we as recipients learn something new or re-learn what we supposedly should know already. Talking to companies interested in increasing people performance, we...


Nov 15, 2023

"I don’t understand!".

Well in Nippon, particularly, what a pandora’s box or treasure trove that statement is, depending on your point of view. Employees who respond in this way may have a number of subterranean issues bubbling away. As managers, our ability to plumb the depths of what they are saying is...


Nov 8, 2023

I am putting this content together for me to remind myself that psychosomatic illness is a real thing and there are plenty of graveyards with ambitious thrusting leaders pushing up daisies, because the stress killed them.  Being an Aussie male is a health hazard.  We are taught from a young age to harden up, soldier on,...


Nov 1, 2023

I have a short fuse for idiocy.  I know this about myself, so I have to work on me, to calm down and not just verbally unload both shotgun barrels into the idiot.  Like everything, there is best practice about giving errant staff feedback.  I find a useful ploy is to “time separate” my irritation with them from when...