Archive for 2004
- Building trust in workplace
- At my farewell party last night, I sat next to the marketing manager. He is Scottish with a great sense of humour, and he has a gorgeous smile, but well known for his capacity to talk shop passionately non-stop for hours on end. My last night with the company, and here I am...
- 20 Mar, 2004 | 2 comments
- Web Social Networking Business Potential
- KNN Web Social Networking Business Potential Seminar was held at Steelcase Tokyo Worklife Showroom on March 17th. Since I was a staff helping to run the seminar, I did a lot of running around and did not focus my attention on the seminar. But parts of it I watched I enjoyed...
- 18 Mar, 2004 | 1 comment
- Effect of time difference on global business
- 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...
- 29 Feb, 2004 | 2 comments
- Those who leave soon
- Recently, I had a good conversation with my long time business friends. One of them is a director of design at a prestegious interiors design firm in Japan, and we talked about the change of attitude toward work by college recurites. They leave, she said...
- 28 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
- Is changing workplace cosmetic?
- Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins: The Pardox of Innovation by Richard Farson and Ralph Keyes This is an unusually seductive approach: making cosmetic changes that give the appearance of dynamic change without requiring any fundamental revision in the way business gets done...
- 24 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
- Through Orkut
- Orkut is a ba. Virtual ba, that is. I was looking for cool people to meet, places to work, particularly free WIFI cafes, in San Francisco through my trusted contact who first introduced me to Orkut...
- 23 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
- How some of us become strong
- We had a great time talking, exchanging ideas and thoughts. My friend and I agreed that we grow because we were given the opportunity to grow. Our choice was to either keep being miserable about the past situation we lived through, or accept the past, learn, and move on...
- 16 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
- Mastering business skills
- Natural tendency of liking people and wanting to communicate is probably what makes a good interpreter. It is what probably makes a good painter of people. But I was not interested in pursuing the art of interpreting or painting...
- 15 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
- Energized environment
- Over the past 10 years, I have read a few books. Each of the book is so full of wisdom the writer has accumulated over many, many years. I am learning that not even 10 readings of each of these books I have chosen are enough...
- 10 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
- Things that interest you
- Lst week, I told my friend who was not sure what to write about on his blog that he needs to write about things that really interest him. Otherwise, writing will not continue...
- 29 Jan, 2004 | 2 comments
