Worklife

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

Archive for 2004


Perception is reality”

I was read­ing tompeters.com, “Cur­rent Cool Friend Inter­view”, and Lou Car­bone is talk­ing about how Ray Kroc under­stand­ing emo­tional needs of cus­tomers.  Car­bone is talk­ing about mar­ket­ing, but it applies for peo­ple in gen­eral.  For most of us, most of time, “per­cep­tion is re

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28 Nov, 2004 | No comments yet
Goals of worklife

Maybe sour grapes. But an e-mail my friend sent to me allowed me to express exactly what I have been think­ing about lately. My friend sent me an e-mail with an arti­cle of a woman suc­ceed­ing in grow­ing a com­pany with type of work that I spe­cial­ize in

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31 Oct, 2004 | No comments yet
My Favorite Building Complex in Tokyo 2

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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29 Sep, 2004 | No comments yet
My Favorite Building Complex in Tokyo

When I first vis­ited one of my clients in Opera City build­ing in Hat­su­dai, I did not like it. The build­ing lobby area felt like maze. I have ter­ri­ble sense of direc­tion, and with­out good sig­nage and clear visual indi­ca­tion for ori­en­teer­ing, I get lost easily

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21 Sep, 2004 | No comments yet
Sociological and psychological aspects of working independently 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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30 Aug, 2004 | No comments yet
Wake up call for the foreign B2B interiors products business in Japan

For­eign based com­mer­cial inte­ri­ors prod­ucts com­pa­nies (B2B) in Japan are chron­i­cally seek­ing account man­agers and sales staffs. They will never suc­ceed in hir­ing and retain­ing capa­ble employee they seek, let alone pros­per in sat­is­fac­tory way unless they change they way they do business

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14 Aug, 2004 | No comments yet
Working, watching in Shibuya

Sit­ting at a counter seat in a crowded Star­bucks, view from the place, check­ing e-mails on mobile phoneShibuya work style

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01 Aug, 2004 | 2 comments
Business Discussion

Places we go after work hours to talk shop

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31 Jul, 2004 | No comments yet
Tiny changes

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24 Jul, 2004 | 1 comment
All about relativity

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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24 Jul, 2004 | No comments yet


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