Worklife

Ramblings about workplace culture, life in Japan, and then some.

Archive for 2003


Last Samurai — Mastering

Last Samu­rai is receiv­ing rave review, and I think it deserves it. As a movie, it is very good. But when I try to learn some­thing from it, the gross dif­fer­ence between real­ity and made up movie story on impor­tant fac­tor about life is rather disturbing

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31 Dec, 2003 | 2 comments
Project without passionate integrator

With­out face-to-face encoun­ters with a pas­sion­ate inte­gra­tor, a project will not succeed

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20 Dec, 2003 | No comments yet
What happens when I stop practicing

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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11 Dec, 2003 | 3 comments
Creating workplace at foreign companies in Japan

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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21 Nov, 2003 | 4 comments
Women at work

It was just until a few months ago, I was lonely for friend­ship with women

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15 Nov, 2003 | 2 comments
What Foreign multinational companies in japan are seeking

My Aus­tralian friend once men­tioned to me dur­ing his first visit to Japan that he noticed that eat­ing is inter­act­ing in Japan. At many sushi place, you grinde your own wasabi. We mix chopped nori, ground gin­ger to our taste at the table when we eat cold soba noodle

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14 Nov, 2003 | No comments yet
Steelcase University
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05 Nov, 2003 | No comments yet
Knowledge management

Maybe the fad-like inter­est in “knowl­edge man­age­ment” is wan­ing now, but I do hope instead of being con­tent with hav­ing knowl­edge, that we will learn to actu­ally use these knowledge

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29 Oct, 2003 | No comments yet
Change of season

As I rode my bicy­cle along the bank of Tsu­rumi River , once again feel­ing so amazed that sea­sons change, and each sea­son has its own plants that knows to grow and bloom at exact same sea­son in a year. The cos­mos is in full bloom now, its bright flow­ers and del­i­cate stems and leaves

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26 Oct, 2003 | No comments yet
Tide of change in Japan

Thanks to an intro­duc­tion by Shimizu-san, I have attended a party that cel­e­brated the start up of a shared stu­dio office by small busi­nesses of cre­ative indus­try, such as archi­tects, design­ers, pro­duc­ers tonight

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26 Oct, 2003 | 3 comments


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