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Why losing your company laptop can be a really big deal in corporate Japan....
Japanese multinational companies have been slow to adapt their business practices to make the most of globalization. One way for Japanese companies to enhance their global competitiveness is to utilize...
While exchange of favors and mutual aid are common to all cultures, there are some differences in the way Japanese and Americans view these things....
"A messy desk is the sign of a creative mind" This shows a typical American attitude that "neatness" is something divorced from "getting things done" -- quite opposite from the...
In Japan, women do not have the same role in the workplace as women in the United States…As Japanese companies have increased their M&A activity in the U.S. recently, I...
…There was no business strategy reason, or other explanation. Just doing it because all our competitors were, and we didn't want to be the only one not doing it.”...
Once one has become familiar with reading and writing A3 reports, they can certainly increase efficiency…any employee can pick up a report from anywhere else in the company and immediately...
Japanese tend to not want praise for things that they think are not perfect and still need work…Given this negative meaning of compliments, it makes sense that Japanese might feel...
I don’t happen to have children, but I imagine that if I did I wouldn’t need a recorded voice to tell me that I needed to hold their hands on...
Western communication style relies heavily on words. In contrast, Japanese communication relies less on verbal manipulation, and more heavily on non-verbals. Japanese are able to rely more on...
