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		<title>Humans will be mostly manufactured</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 06:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe humanss will be manufactured, not born by year&#160;2209.
Look around now.  We seem to have already made the choice.  We are waiting for the technology to catch up.  Kids in advanced country planted in front of PC or gaming device or some sort of machine, because there aren&#8217;t room for them to play outside.  They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use technology to communicate better</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/insight/use-technology-to-communicate-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 17:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title seem lame:  use technology to commuincate better.  I hear often that we already use too much technology and not enough face-to-face real life&#160;communicaiton.
It seems many of us had enough of fragmented, tedius, limiting technology communicaiton in text messaging, both in forms of e-mail and homepages including blogs.  In the world of web 2.0, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President of a major global company, president of a country</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:04:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching Kareem Abdul-Jabbar&#8217;s speech at UCLA for the inauguration of UCLA Chancellor Gene D. Block, I started to think of the responsibilities of a president of a major global company and a president of a country.  Both are ultimately leaders who&#8217;s action and decisions affects everyone within his/her company or&#160;country.
Just as with a country one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Ichiro&#8217;s words through American master coaches lessons</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/insight/understanding-ichiros-words-through-american-master-coaches-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend and I were having lunch on March 24th, and she showed me that the World Baseball Classic final game was being played in Los Angeles as we were having our lunch in Tokyo.  During my teenage years, with an American step-father who loved to watch sports on TV, our family watched some kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The way Japanese executives think about company responsibility</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/insight/the-way-japanese-executives-think-about-company-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business in Japan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what percentage of Japanese executives feel this way, but last week, I&#8217;ve heard it directly from the director of major Japanese companies, like I did from many Japanese executives&#160;before.
We are responsible for providing livelihood for the citizens.  We have to think of ways to offer meaningful jobs for as many people as&#160;possible.
He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Japan is all about the way of doing things&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 10:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of months, I&#8217;ve been having fun with Twitter.  Each day, I interact with all sorts of people of the world, finding very intersting&#160;information.
Today, through Rick Martin&#8217;s tweet, I found a very good portrait of&#160;Japanese.
With usual caveats against sweeping generalization, what this made me think  was: Japan is all about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twestival</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/twestival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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The team and I are organizing Twestival in&#160;Tokyo.
It&#8217;s on the evening of 12 February&#160;2009.
Please&#160;come!
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		<title>Now it&#8217;s going too far the other way?</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/now-its-going-too-far-the-other-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Resource Policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think open plan in office works without having easily accessible private room or cubicle to use in&#160;need.
Like everything else, it&#8217;s not one size fits all.  How the workspace should be layed out depends on your&#160;job.
I thought of this because recently, I have seen several article that says open plan does not work, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why meet face to face?</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/travel/why-meet-face-to-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category>
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This year, more people than ever attend the World Economic Forum at Davos.  As this video asks:  Why attend?  We are now capable of sharing so much information&#160;virtually.
It will probably take several generations, if ever, for the humans to become natural at virtual meetings.  In the recent seminar I organized about building a large factory/showroom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potential of Twitter in Japan</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/potential-of-twitter-in-japan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Japanese behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uchida Yoko people thought it was another one of those crazy ideas I brought in.  Rather than doing Q&#38;A after panel discussion, I proposed that we set it up so that everyone can post question or comment during panel discussion to realize audience participation.  I explained that people would feel freer to express [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota dealership visit in suburban Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/japanese-behavior/toyota-dealer-visit-in-suburban-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/japanese-behavior/toyota-dealer-visit-in-suburban-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business in Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
http://www.flickr.com/photos/projectkobo/sets/72157612706079650/
Buying an automobile has never been an option to me since I moved from the US to Tokyo.  Why would I want a car?  Trains and buses are so cheap, they are everywhere, runs on time, clean, safe.  Taxis aren&#8217;t so expensive.  If I needed to drive somewhere for some reason, I would rent a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not new, but real needs of knowledge workers</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/not-new-but-real-needs-of-knowledge-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/not-new-but-real-needs-of-knowledge-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current advanced region&#8217;s challenge is to match the wokplace and technologies for the workforce who are considered knowledge workers. This is to be quantified, but random interviews conducted has shown that our productivity in focused PC based knowledge activities such as reading and writing are highest in general public spaces such as cafes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astrology based on changed position of sun rising</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/insight/astrology-based-on-changed-position-of-sun-rising/</link>
		<comments>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/insight/astrology-based-on-changed-position-of-sun-rising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning from people, books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Discovering this kind of thing is just so much&#160;fun!

I mean, we could point out that what astrologers say are vague and also two astrological readings on same person would contradict each other, but that kind of argument would still leave a possibility of one or more astrologers in the world might be&#160;right.
When we talk about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/2009/</link>
		<comments>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New&#160;year!
Here&#8217;s to share with you my currently favorite&#160;video:

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		<title>Review of the year 2008</title>
		<link>http://fujikosuda.com/worklife/work-life/review-of-the-year-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fujiko Suda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for making my 2008 a wonderful&#160;year!
It was great working together with my friends, colleagues and&#160;clients.
Had this enjoyable year end meeting.  A typical one we had at many cafes and diners at various places in the&#160;world.

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