Feb 25, 2021
Sakaiya Taichi, a well known author and futurist, made some interesting observations about trends in Japanese youth society. He referred to young Japan’s current lack of yoku (desire), yume (dreams) and yaruki (guts). What does this mean for business and for our companies if we are staffed by young people without...
Feb 18, 2021
Designing our presentation well is critical. We have identified our target audience for our key messages. We have selected the title to really engage our audience. We know the purpose of the exercise - inform, persuade, entertain or motivate to action.
Designing the conclusion is always a good place to start. The...
Feb 11, 2021
Sisyphus was banished to Hades for misdeeds in life and spent eternity rolling a large stone to the top of a hill, to just watch it descend again. This is the sales life. Every end of financial year, we are back down at the bottom of the hill. Here we go again, having to push that big rock all the way to the...
Feb 4, 2021
We are in a temporary lull in the war for talent, thanks to Covid -19. In short order, things will be back to normal though with all of us facing a shortage of suitable young people to hire. Are we ready to the resumption of hostilities?
They are just not making enough future workers here in Japan. The required...