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
Category: Insight
Insight, inspiration
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
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
“Perception is reality”
I was reading tompeters.com, "Current Cool Friend Interview", and Lou Carbone is talking about how Ray Kroc understanding emotional needs of customers. Carbone is talking about marketing, but it applies for people in general. For most of us, most of time, "perception is re
Tiny changes
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Organic way of doing business
My recently found friend and I were talking intensely about general way we do business. Someone who has such open, unassuming manner always win my respect, and I ended up talking to him about what really bothers me about business relationship in general
Measurement
A few months ago, I wrote that I longed to re-read all the books I have. What was stopping me? Nothing. Just my notion that I was too busy to re-read, that I needed to constantly be discovering something new
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
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
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
From Feynman’s Rainbow
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
What happens when I stop practicing
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
Knowledge management
Maybe the fad-like interest in "knowledge management" is waning now, but I do hope instead of being content with having knowledge, that we will learn to actually use these knowledge
Business Organization Life Cycle
Any living organism is born, lives, and dies. Business organization is a type of living organism, and it seems many major companies in Japan are getting to be ancient in age. Maybe some companies can transform itself
Historical Perspective
My friends and I often discuss the advancement of countries in historical perspectives. The fact that a country does not stay in power for more than a few hundred years, if that long
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