Getting to the Honne of the Matter: Part One
The Japanese Pharma industry offers important international experience to expat executives. After their tour-of-duty is completed, foreign-based executives return to HQ having often received a more...
View ArticleFreedom from fear in 2009
Excellent opportunities abound at foreign pharma companies here in Japan, as Reed Maurer rightly pointed out in a recent edition of Pharma Japan. I agree wholeheartedly, and believe next year will...
View ArticleFocusing on the Task At Hand
The Pharma director’s large company was soon to be acquired, but he did not speak of his personal long-term career goals and plans. In fact, he did not appear to be worried too much at all. Instead,...
View ArticleWhy Problems are Always Opportunities
It is not what happens to us, it is how we react. Like many wise sayings, this advice is easy to preach but hard to practice. Who hasn’t wanted to yell at the support staff, a client or even a...
View ArticleBenefits of an Attitude of Gratitude
American Thanksgiving is such a great idea for a holiday. Our American friends have it right when they stop for a day and give thanks for all they have received. In Japan and in my homeland of...
View ArticleWould You Follow Someone Like You?
“Leadership is taken, not given,” a Novartis director revealed recently. It is one thing to bestow the title of director, CEO or president, he said, but quite another to be a leader who people will...
View ArticleHow To Fire Up Your Team
“Give me a place to stand and I shall move the whole earth with a lever,” said the great Greek mathematician Archimedes, who is famed for saying “Eureka’’ after one of his great scientific discoveries....
View ArticleThe Eight Characteristics of a Great Leader
We recently met a 42-year-old pharmaceutical employee who was promoted to commercial director of a European pharmaceutical company in Japan. In Japan, there is often a positive correlation between age...
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Leading from afar
The International Executive Search Federation’s (IESF) global meeting was held in September 2012, in Milan, Italy. One of the keynote speakers at the meeting was Peter Hägglund, an expert in...
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Learn how to give a Great Presentation and you may break the “Gaijin Ceiling”...
Early this year I attended a conference on trends in Japan’s pharmaceutical industry. The objective of the conference was to determine what Pharmaceutical companies were doing in Japan to make...
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