[:en]No More New Strategy Tools[:ja]戦略ツールなどいらない[:]
[:en]In photography, new cameras do not make for better art, just as in strategy, new tools do not make for better business results.
[: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]The Ethics of Symbolism[:ja]象徴主義の倫理[:]
[:en]There is nothing inherently wrong with symbolism. It is only symbolism that masquerades inaction that is unethical and destructive.
[:en]Ideology is No Ersatz for Strategy[:ja]イデオロギーは戦略の代わりになり得るものではない[:]
[:en] A friend of mine recently observed that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s strategy to deter a Chinese seizure of the disputed Senkaku Islands makes no sense.
[: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]Conversation with IHG/ANA Hotels CEO Hans Heijligers[:ja]IHG・ANAホテルズCEOハンス・ハイリガーズ氏から学んだこと[:]
[:en]On June 25th, I conducted an on-stage conversation with IHG/ANA Hotels Group Japan CEO, Hans Heijligers for both the American and French Chambers of Commerce at the Tokyo American Club. Here are my takeaways from that conversation.
[: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]The Three Freedoms of Engagement[:ja]取り組みを促す３つの自由[:]
[:en]I don’t need to rely on the stock recommendations from prepackaged employee engagement surveys to gauge and improve a staff’s emotional commitment to the business, and neither do you. All I need to do is to gauge the degree of the three freedoms of employee engagement listed below, and that will tell me what I […]
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