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THE Leadership Japan Series by Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo Japan


Oct 23, 2019

330: Harry Hill- From Zero to $700 Million

Today we have an interview with Harry Hill the ex-CEO of Shop Japan.  He went from being an English teacher in Gifu, to the founder of firms that grew into a $700 million business.  He has his own leadership mantra, using the acronym VICES.  

V - Vision

I - Integrity 

C - Competency

E - Efficiency

S - Sustained Success

 

He also mentioned that although VICES can sound a bit negative, as an acronym, but it also reminds him that power can be a vice, pride can be a vice, inflated self-importance can be a vice and that you are always just a step away from crashing failure and oblivion in business.

When I asked Harry for three pieces of advice for new leaders in Japan he nominated these points:

1. Trust and Check

2. Listen rather than want to be heard

3.  Identify who are the biggest obstacles and immediately and publically remove them