When I worked on a workplace change project for a non-Japanese company in India last year, I thought my days were numbered working on Japanese company projects. Now it appears as my days are numbered for working on Japanese company projects
Category: Workplace design
Philosophy and journey of workplace design
Development of innovation
Reading Jung is hard. He will not give me a break. He is not like Joseph Campbell who learned much from Jung, offering comforting words, smooth way of acceptance
Last Samurai – Mastering
Last Samurai is receiving rave review, and I think it deserves it. As a movie, it is very good. But when I try to learn something from it, the gross difference between reality and made up movie story on important factor about life is rather disturbing
Project without passionate integrator
Without face-to-face encounters with a passionate integrator, a project will not succeed
Creating workplace at foreign companies 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
Women at work
It was just until a few months ago, I was lonely for friendship with women
What Foreign multinational companies in japan are seeking
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
Steelcase University
Change of season
As I rode my bicycle along the bank of Tsurumi River , once again feeling so amazed that seasons change, and each season has its own plants that knows to grow and bloom at exact same season in a year. The cosmos is in full bloom now, its bright flowers and delicate stems and leaves
Tide of change in Japan
Thanks to an introduction by Shimizu-san, I have attended a party that celebrated the start up of a shared studio office by small businesses of creative industry, such as architects, designers, producers tonight
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
How versus What
Thoughts from interaction with Izabel On Thursday afternoon, we had a workshop with people who were mainly involved in figuring out how to produce products. On that same day in the evening, I attended a party with people who were mainly involved in figuring out what products to create
Inside a train
Common cases in Tokyo Focused thinking time: Average commute time for people working in Tokyo area is a little over one hour, I think. My time on the commute train is 30 minutes
True story inspires
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
How IT has changed our lives so far
IT. Does it supposed to make life easier for us? More fun? Life has become more complicated because IT created ways to measure simple things at amazing speed. Since we humans love measurement, and if we can have measurement quickly, than we will compromize on content of matters being measured