When Everyone Cheats

Around a decade ago, the CEO of the Japanese subsidiary of a European building infrastructure and engineering services company told me his business had repeatedly experienced safety failures and accidents. One person had died and others might have in other incidents but fortunately had not. He told me he suspected the cause was the failure […]
The Acumen of Gender Diversity

Most global companies outside of Japan have targets for increasing numbers of women employees, particularly in management. And even in Japan where women are often given short shrift, more global companies now have such targets as well. However, the leaders of the most successful companies I know achieve their objective by doing things right that […]
[:en]Conversation with AXA Group Japan CEO Seiji Yasubuchi[:ja]アクサ・ホールディングス・ジャパン株式会社代表取締役社長安渕聖司氏へのインタビュー[:]

[:en]On April 14th, I had the pleasure to conduct an onstage conversation with AXA Group Japan CEO Seiji Yasubuchi for the French Chamber of Commerce. Below is a summary of my takeaways from the conversation.