Insight
- Humans will be mostly manufactured
- Maybe humanss will be manufactured, not born by year 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’t room for them to play outside. They […]...
- 01 Aug, 2009 | No comments yet
- Use technology to communicate better
- 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 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, […]...
- 29 May, 2009 | No comments yet
- President of a major global company, president of a country
- Watching Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’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’s action and decisions affects everyone within his/her company or country. Just as with a country one […]...
- 02 Apr, 2009 | No comments yet
- Understanding Ichiro’s words through American master coaches lessons
- 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 […]...
- 26 Mar, 2009 | No comments yet
- The way Japanese executives think about company responsibility
- I don’t know what percentage of Japanese executives feel this way, but last week, I’ve heard it directly from the director of major Japanese companies, like I did from many Japanese executives 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 possible. He […]...
- 22 Mar, 2009 | 2 comments
- Why meet face to face?
- 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 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 […]...
- 30 Jan, 2009 | No comments yet
- Astrology based on changed position of sun rising
- Discovering this kind of thing is just so much 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 right. When we talk about […]...
- 07 Jan, 2009 | No comments yet
- Companies that can afford to have uninspiring workspace
- Companies that can afford to have uninspiring workspace Fear: Employees afraid to lose their jobs Love: Employees love their jobs, pay, status of their company or their position Companies that need inspiring workspace Attract: Employees with rare talents; employees to do dull, or painful work Impress: Visitors ...
- 03 Jul, 2008 | No comments yet
- Recent epiphany
- After working on a project that demanded all my knowledge and experience of the past 40 years, I was rewarded with deep learning and epiphany. As I was reading Rachel Remen’s Kitchen Table Wisdom for the 23rd time, I came across the part that described the work of business consultants. Although Remen was talking about […]...
- 17 Apr, 2008 | 2 comments
- Personal entertainment devices
- 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...
- 14 Jan, 2008 | No comments yet
