Worklife

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

Archive for 2005


Have Respect for the Indivisual”

In advanced coun­tries, it seems to me that to respect for the indi­vid­ual is the most impor­tant key fac­tor for the longe term suc­cess of a company

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25 Dec, 2005 | No comments yet
Expericence design circa 1925

The secret of all true per­sua­sion is to induce the per­son to per­suade him­self. The chief task of the per­suader, there­fore is to induce the expe­ri­ence. The rest will take care of itself. Inclueinc­ing Human Behav­ior, H.A

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09 Nov, 2005 | No comments yet
Impact of Informal by Cecil Balmond

Engi­neers are fas­ci­nat­ing breed of peo­ple. They manip­u­late num­bers to cre­ate things

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06 Oct, 2005 | No comments yet
At our office

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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19 Sep, 2005 | No comments yet
Ray Kroc, Howard Schultz, Joe Girard

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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06 Sep, 2005 | 1 comment
Blog is a community: caring together

As I was surf­ing the inter­net today, I came upon a mov­ing blog entry by Tom Peters. In the entry titled Black Dogs, Loved ones, Etc., I felt like inscrib­ing the fol­low­ing words to my heart and brain: First, I think Blogs should be per­sonal & authentic

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28 Aug, 2005 | No comments yet
Achieving the meaningful end result

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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20 Aug, 2005 | No comments yet
Facilitating concept design and detail design

In pur­suit of effi­ciency and cost sav­ings, big com­pa­nies I have become aquinted recently seem lost in prod­ucts to intro­duce to mar­ket. Okay five com­pa­nies over the past half years, but I have a feel­ing there are lots more com­pa­nies like them

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23 Jul, 2005 | No comments yet
It’s about life in general

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 Jul, 2005 | No comments yet
Social responsibility of creating a company

I ran into one of my favorite major com­pany exec­u­tive at a train sta­tion today. Our exchange was brief, but what he said blew my mind

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05 Jul, 2005 | 2 comments


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