Can Japanese to be the country head??

Hi all.

I have a question for all the business people in Japan.

"How do you compete with young, motivated and smart fresh graduates?"

About 30 million fresh graduates from India are predicted to be entering the workforce by 2014.

This issue goes beyond India. The Indian market can’t absorb all the fresh graduates therefore about 20 million of them will be hunting for opportunities to work globally.

In the next four years, we are going to see the same number of people from good universities in India.

In three years time, we will be facing serious competition.

Most of those students from India have multilingual capabilities and adaptability to adapt to different cultures.

If we don't have the knowledge and skills to manage those kinds of people, we can't work in the global organization anymore.

Did you know that the head of some global organizations in Japan are not Japanese even though their clients are all Japanese?

For most of those organizations, Japan is an important market.

But Japan is not the ideal place to find those suitable employees and leaders.

Actually, many Indians and Singaporean have already filled those positions.

The global heads of some American companies are French, Norwegian, Dutch and Brazilian.

The nationality of the global head is not an issue for global organizations now but why is it that the Japanese haven’t been able to fill the positions as country head of those global organizations?

I think that there are three reasons behind this.

1. Language capability

2. Adaptability

3. Mobility

Many Japanese business men are not good at English in verbal communication. Most of them are good at reading and writing but they find it difficult to hold a conversation face to face. In the business world, communication is an important role for operation. Without speaking and listening comprehension it will be difficult to do business.

Adaptability is hard to get. It means that we have to understand different cultures and values. There are no right answers but right questions. So business people have to deal with various ideas and perspectives.

Mobility is also hard to get. Japanese have a tendency to stay at one place all the time. They don’t want to move to a new place or city. They love their home town and don’t want to take the risk to move around.

From a management’s point of view, we want to hire the people who can change quickly, adapt new initiatives smoothly and can work every where globally.

The many Japanese who lack these three elements can’t act in an important role.

It is critical for Japanese managers to learn the above three skills.

How can they develop those skills?

I will show you another time.

Regards

Why I am staying the Marriott all the time.

Hi all.

I updated the blog last week so I am trying it this week as well.

How are you doing?

I hope that you all doing well.

As you knew already, I traveled quite a lot.

I stayed at many hotels over 70 nights this year because of my works and holidays.

What are you going to do when you have to organize 70 nights stay in a year?

Location?

Brand name?

Price?

Everyone has own judgment to pick up.

I stayed at Marriott hotels so many nights every around the world and so far they treat me very nice.

Most of hotel I stayed I got the automatically upgrade.

Besides that I can use the executive lounge all the time so I can be a friend with the people working there.

Yes. I can receive the benefits that is one reason.

But I have another good reason to stay there.

That is the safety and urgency procedure.

I will show my story about it.


This year I stayed Chicago Marriott downtown, people in the lounge and concierge are excellent.

They called me first name, give me a hug and cheer me up all the time.

Even when I left there, they gave me a big hug.

During my stay I was a bid nervous because I had to deal with some business issues and had a speech.

Their big warmth welcome and cheered me up gave me a great time in Chicago.

On the day I left Chicago when I reached the airport, I noticed that I left my wallet in the safety in the hotel.

Off course I was in panic.

But I realized that my flight was delayed so I had the time to go back.

I jumped in the cab and rushed back to the downtown.

I called the hotel and told the operator what happened.

The operator on the phone calmed me down and told me that

"Sir when you reach the lobby, call the security and we will check your ID. Then everything is OK we will pass to you your wallet."

"All right."

I hang up and was the chat with the driver on the way.

It took only 30 minutes but for me it felt like couple hours.

To the downtown, I saw so much traffic. I became a little bid hopeless.

I wondered how long it takes to get just one wallet at the hotel.

It could be another 30 minutes, could be 40 minutes.



When I reached the lobby, all concierge were stunned because they saw me.

"What happened,Mr.Ikeda? Everything is all right? Well not all right so you came back"
with big smile on the face.

Then they called the security and the security passed me the wallet because all concierge know who I am.

If this is not the Marriott, story could be different.

They are so nice and super with personal touch I never forget.

I want to go back there when I have the opportunity.


This is the true story about one of my experience in Marriott.

Well, there are so many hotels and resorts out there.


But nice people and professional can make the brand reality.

Once you encountered those experience, we all love them.


I hope that this story show you how great the Marriott hotels are.

What kind of criteria you have when you pick up the hotel?


Regards


Teppei

Find the way around you.

Hi all.

It has been eight months already since last update.

Since then I have been Beijing, Chicago, Frankfurt, Nice, Canne, Munich, Seoul, Yuzhino Shaklinsk and Singapore.

As I said on my last update, I have been many countries.
It meant my projection was right.

Finally I came back to Tokyo and thought back what was actually going on.

I am sure one thing.

We all can see the increasing demands for creating the leaders with global brain.

Many companies need the leaders who knows how to handle uncertain situation.

We don't have any answers for new emerging global issues therefore we have to attack with the flexible and open mindsets.

China became very harsh about the boarders.

Republican won the last election in U.S.

India is still growing.


Well what can we do?

How do we survive in uncertain world?

I know one thing is for sure.


You ask the people around you, they will guide you to the right answer.

So hang around with the friend and people with respect and honor.


They will lead you the way.

But you have to judge on final call.



regards