[:en]Using R&D to Make a Sale is like Eating Your Young[:ja]研究開発部を利用して営業を上げるのは、リソースの無駄遣いである[:]
[:en]I often see sales people offer highly valuable expert services from an R&D division to a customer for free in order to make a product sale, even when the customer would likely have been happy to pay.
[:en]Worldview[:ja]世界観[:]
[:en]Last week while in New York, I learned of a stabbing of an 18-year-old Japanese woman in a neighborhood close to where I live in Tsukuba. The news came via an email from Tsukuba International School, where my son attends, warning caution. Violent crime in Japan is far rarer than in the United States, and almost unheard of in Tsukuba, so this incident was jarring for many people. Having left my wife and son in Japan, I felt uneasy with the notion that there was some violent criminal at large in our peaceful neighborhood. The victim described the attacker to police as a man wearing a mask and speaking “broken Japanese,” […]
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