[:en]Culture Change Manifesto[:ja]企業改革宣言[:]
[:en]I define culture as norms of behaviors based on shared beliefs. When a leader says he or she wants to change the culture of his or her company, the ultimate goal is always to change norms of behaviors. If I want to understand the culture of a company, all I need to do is observe […]
[:en]Change Discipline, Not Management[:]
[:en]The currency of discipline is choice, and that choice is yours to make. Change management is ostensibly a practice to help people in an organization make a transition as a result of a disruptive organization change. However, disruption need not be disruptive if disruption is part of your discipline.
[:en]Conversation with Visa Japan Country Manager Seiji Yasubuchi[:ja]ビザ・ジャパンのカントリーマネージャー、安渕聖司氏から学んだこと[:]
[:en]On April 3rd, I conducted an onstage conversation with Visa Japan Country Manager, Seiji Yasubuchi, at the Tokyo American Club for the American and French Chambers of Commerce in Japan. We had a full house! Here are my takeaways from my discussion with Seiji.
[:en]Growth is a State of Mind, Not a Market[:ja]企業の成長とは市場の状況ではなく、気持ちの持ち方によりもたらされるものである[:]
[:en]Return on investment of overseas acquisitions made by Japanese companies, with some exceptions, is feeble by large and at times disastrous.
[:en]The World is Given, But The Frame is Yours[:ja]この世界をどう切り取るかは、あなた次第[:]
[:en]The world is given, but in photography, you frame the world as you want it. The photograph is your own. The leader of a business does much the same. You take the world as you want it. The frame is of your own choosing.
[:en]Campaigns Don’t Shape Brands[:ja]ブランドとはキャンペーンによって形作られるものではない[:]
[:en]Campaigns don’t shape brands. Leaders do. Campaigns merely project to the outside world the brand as perceived by the people inside your company, whether that brand is how you like it or not. Dissonance will cause any branding campaign to fail, no matter what you do.
[:en]Ignore The Competition[:ja]競争相手は無視すること[:]
[:en]Focusing on what the competition is doing in considering your own strategy tacitly enables your competitors to force you to compete on their terms. For breakthrough strategy, forget about the competition.
[:en]2018 Predictions [:ja]２０１８年を予測する[:]
[:en]I love making predictions, so here is my list of ten predictions for 2018.
[:en]Market Entry Manifesto[:ja]日本市場参入について[:]
[:en]Last week, a reporter from The Telegraph in the UK contacted me for my views on the challenges of market entry in Japan. My market entry manifesto is below:
[:en]Identify Cause. Never Presume. [:ja]大切なのは原因を突き止めること。仮定はすべからず。[:]
[:en] The CEO of a well-known US company in Japan contacted me recently to ask whether I thought flatter organizational structures are better than more hierarchical ones. He learned that vital information from the ranks was not getting to him fast enough and thought that a flatter structure might resolve the problem. He was, in […]
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