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Archive for 2003


Workplace as Information station
Shimazaki-san gave us so many good source of discussion, I think we will accumulate enough writing on those topic to produce several dissertations! One discussion he and I had was about the meaning of workplace. He sees it as “ba” which information flows...
09 Aug, 2003 | No comments yet
Knowledge management outsourced
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...
09 Aug, 2003 | No comments yet
Work result expectation difference by cultures
I could understand how it takes a genius to discover the obvious things happening around us. Discovery is for the humans to see the truth. Truth is all around us, all the time. How blind we are. It takes so much living, paying close attention to the nature of the matter to see the truth...
11 Jul, 2003 | No comments yet
Globilization 2
In my last entry, I have focused on existance of both extreme good and extreme bad on “globilization”. But as mentioned briefly in my last entry, there are “others”, general mass of people who are just trying to make good, honest living by working. These people needs jobs, and both Dr...
05 Jul, 2003 | No comments yet
Globalization
Maybe it was 15 years ago. I have distinct memory of the images of thick, moist African jungle, man grimy from long and hard travel on pathless way, blue hopeful but fearful eyes on lean face, all on the television screen. The man said: “Dr...
05 Jul, 2003 | No comments yet
Changing Style
Thanks to Rudolf, I have been able to access some very interesting blog sites. One of them was Gloassdog, and not only is it a great read, it offers some help in html writing to beginners like me...
20 Apr, 2003 | 2 comments
Mastery
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...
06 Apr, 2003 | No comments yet
Knowledge Creation and IT
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...
01 Apr, 2003 | 4 comments
Brainstorming: Japanese way, North American way
In business context, with average workers: Brain storming the Japanese way: In order for one to have a successful brain storming session with Japanese, setting time, meeting in a formal conference room, to have a high ranking superior attend will not be a good set up...
01 Apr, 2003 | 2 comments
The Gap: Education & Business
The spring warmth has finally come for the past week here in Tokyo area. Trees are coming to life with soft greens and blossoms in various shades of pink, yellow, white, and blue. While I was cycling, as usual, thoughts begun to take shape as words...
29 Mar, 2003 | No comments yet


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