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Daiwa Securities is rebuilding its M&amp;A staff from 640 bankers to 900. Goldman Sachs committed over 5 billion dollars to Japan&#8217;s mid-cap market over the next decade. Every one of these firms is chasing the same thing: a Japanese M&amp;A market that hit 350 billion dollars last year \u2014 the highest since anyone started counting in 1998. If you&#8217;re a foreign executive running a business in Japan, you probably read that news the way most people do. Interesting. Background noise. Somebody else&#8217;s deal. It isn&#8217;t. And the reason has nothing to do with M&amp;A. 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Not from regulators. Not from competitors. For anyone leading a company in Japan, that changes where the real work of change lies. I walk through five lessons from a leadership panel I moderated in Tokyo: why leaders who win carry the risk personally, why you should stop trying to convert the unconvinced, why institutions move on self-interest rather than mission, why staying close to the work matters, and four things leaders should stop accepting as the way things are done in Japan. If you are interested in more on leading change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\t<article class=\"podcast-5893 podcast type-podcast\">\t\n\t\t<h2>\n\t\t\t<a class=\"entry-title-link\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenbleistein.net\/ja\/podcast\/japans-1-trillion-bet-capacity-isnt-the-constraint-coherence-is\/\">\n\t\t\t\tJapan&#8217;s \u00a51 Trillion Bet: Capacity Isn&#8217;t the Constraint. 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