Archive for 2003
- New combination of “ba” 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...
- 13 Oct, 2003 | 2 comments
- Business Organization Life Cycle
- Any living organism is born, lives, and dies. Business organization is a type of living organism, and it seems many major companies in Japan are getting to be ancient in age. Maybe some companies can transform itself...
- 04 Oct, 2003 | No comments yet
- How versus What
- Thoughts from interaction with Izabel On Thursday afternoon, we had a workshop with people who were mainly involved in figuring out how to produce products. On that same day in the evening, I attended a party with people who were mainly involved in figuring out what products to create...
- 04 Oct, 2003 | No comments yet
- Inside a train
- Common cases in Tokyo Focused thinking time: Average commute time for people working in Tokyo area is a little over one hour, I think. My time on the commute train is 30 minutes...
- 01 Oct, 2003 | 4 comments
- True story inspires
- 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...
- 08 Sep, 2003 | No comments yet
- How IT has changed our lives so far
- IT. Does it supposed to make life easier for us? More fun? Life has become more complicated because IT created ways to measure simple things at amazing speed. Since we humans love measurement, and if we can have measurement quickly, than we will compromize on content of matters being measured...
- 06 Sep, 2003 | 7 comments
- Innovation and age
- S. Chandrasekhar mentions in Truth And Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science “that a man of science past sixty does more harm than good.” I believe it is the same way with business leadership. Not only that believe any sort of key department leader should be no older than late thirties...
- 05 Sep, 2003 | 2 comments
- Flow of thoughts
- I thought of my chance to conduct a seminar at an event has been given to someone else recently. The reason that has been explained to me was that “the audience expects white face”...
- 24 Aug, 2003 | No comments yet
- Paul changed
- 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...
- 24 Aug, 2003 | No comments yet
- Historical Perspective
- My friends and I often discuss the advancement of countries in historical perspectives. The fact that a country does not stay in power for more than a few hundred years, if that long...
- 14 Aug, 2003 | 1 comment
