Apr 29, 2020
Stressed Leaders Must Lead Their People Through This Stress
Watching your business implode is stressful. Losing access to good staff through furloughs, firing loyal people through brutal necessity, bum rushing suppliers by not paying them, seeing your clients cancel orders, smelling burning cash reserves are...
Apr 22, 2020
Leading From The Covid-19 War Frontline
In wartime, there are leaders back at HQ, pouring over maps, receiving intelligence, creating strategies and making decisions about where to position their troops. On the frontline, there are on the ground commanders, assessing the situation and then following or adjusting HQ...
Apr 15, 2020
Lockdown Leadership and Coordination
Technically Japan hasn’t gone into lockdown, as other countries have, but in typical Japanese fashion, it is effectively the same thing. By requiring “honourable everyone” to cooperate with the Government’s “request”, they have achieved the same outcome as a lawful...
Apr 8, 2020
The Nuts And Bolts Of Running Virtual Meetings
Running meetings used to pretty straightforward. We would all assemble in the meeting room, go through the agenda and then get back to work. Now people are sitting alone, operating at all different levels of adjustment to working in isolation. They are in all different...
Apr 2, 2020
Leading Your Japanese Team In Lockdown
Your team are sitting at home, unable to go outside and so as the leader what are your priorities? Crunching out work, pushing people to perform, driving results? Are you concerned about your people’s mental health? They are used to working together in a group for 16 hours a...