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

Ba Concept


Noboru Konno’s Workplace Design Site

Noboru Konno has started a work­place design site that shows the lat­est trend. Happy Work­place This is a great read for peo­ple who are respon­si­ble within a com­pany to cre­ate work­place that is a vital part of com­pany oper­a­tion, and for peo­ple who are work­place design professionals.

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23 Sep, 2008 | 4 comments
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
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

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18 Mar, 2004 | 1 comment
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

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23 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

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10 Feb, 2004 | No comments yet
Upbeat

Woke up with a hang­over this morn­ing. It might be the effect of pain relief I took for the hang­over, because even half a dose of any drug does its job, even gets me high. Maybe I was already at the point of dis­cov­ery and hang­over some­how nudged it over the edge

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15 Jan, 2004 | No comments yet
New combination of “ba” 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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13 Oct, 2003 | 2 comments
Workplace as Information station

Shimazaki-san gave us so many good source of dis­cus­sion, I think we will accu­mu­late enough writ­ing on those topic to pro­duce sev­eral dis­ser­ta­tions! One dis­cus­sion he and I had was about the mean­ing of work­place. He sees it as “ba” which infor­ma­tion flows

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09 Aug, 2003 | No comments yet
Knowledge Creation and IT

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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01 Apr, 2003 | 4 comments
Brainstorming: Japanese way, North American way

In busi­ness con­text, with aver­age work­ers: Brain storm­ing the Japan­ese way: In order for one to have a suc­cess­ful brain storm­ing ses­sion with Japan­ese, set­ting time, meet­ing in a for­mal con­fer­ence room, to have a high rank­ing supe­rior attend will not be a good set up

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01 Apr, 2003 | 2 comments


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