[:en]Could You Get a Job at Your Own Company?[:ja]自分の会社に採用してもらえるかどうか[:]
[:en]If you are finding it difficult to fill key roles with excellent people, don’t assume it is because your company does not attract the right candidates, but rather that the right candidates don’t get through your company’s screening process. If you applied for a job at your own company, you too might not get through […]
[:en]Tsukiji, Sayonara[:ja]さようなら、築地[:]
[:en]Saturday, October 6th, marked the end of an eighty-year era as the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo closes following its final tuna auction. The fish market has been moved to a new site in Toyosu about two kilometers away, and opened on October 11th. Tsukiji is undergoing a dramatic change.
[:en]No Path to Excellence in Market Price[:ja]市場価格にこだわらないこと[:]
[:en] Saving pennies should never justify forgoing dollars of income. The most successful business people I know never consider cost, and only consider ROI, particularly when hiring people and engaging services. There is no path to excellence through paying market price. A consistent ROI focus results in rapid growth and success.
[:en]The Anatomy of Misogyny[:ja]女性差別を分析すると[:]
[:en]The other week, Tokyo Medical University was revealed to have been deliberately boosting entrance test scores of male students to give them an advantage and to limit the number of female students since 2006. The motivation? Women shorten or halt their careers after becoming mothers, exacerbating staff shortage problems at hospitals. There is no real […]
[:en]Make Your Own Economy[:ja]景気は自分で作り出すもの[:]
[:en]Are you allowing the economy to dictate your results, or are you making your own economy? In 1995, in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake in which five thousand people lost their lives, an American businessman told me that he had been advised to lower his expectations for the Japan market because Japanese consumers had […]
[:en]Blinkered by Targets[:ja]ターゲットばかりに固執することの危険性[:]
[:en]The best way to achieve performance targets is to ignore them. It’s improving performance form that counts.
Labor Shortage is Never a Problem 労働力が不足していてもビジネスを成長させる方法
There are two ways to grow your business. You can do the same thing, only more of it. Or you can increase the value of what you do. At the time that I write this, Japan has an unemployment rate of less than three percent, so the latter is, for many businesses, the best viable […]
[: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.
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