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Death of the CD?

Dido Brown is not only a musical genius, he is also a business master mind. We first met in Japan when he was touring with his group Bonafide Crew and I was fortunate enough to be able to spend some...

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No risk No return

I am a really poor loser. I hate failing with a vengeance and have been known to hurl things and throw tantrums when things do not go my way. It is that feeling of inadequacy, of knowing that you just...

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Japan shifting gear?

The miracle achieved by the Japanese people and Japan as nation after the end of the Second World War is nothing short of astonishing. In less then 40 years Japan went from being a country ravaged by...

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An idea is like a seed

An idea is like a seed,you have to give it room to grow. When you plant a seed people only focus on the outcome and the fruit that your tree will bear. In their rush they forget that between there and...

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Big Data Demystified

It seems like every year there is a new buzz word from one of the large consulting firms that slowly nestles its way into the vocabularies of CEOs across the globe. Cloud, or cloud solutions, or cloud...

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My way or the Highway

Forcing ultimatums on friends family or people that you work with is one of the most fatal mistakes you can make both professionally and personally. This particular phrase brings forth, at least in my...

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When nothing is everything

You can only do so much planning and modeling before you have to go out in the real world and execute. There comes a time when all the NPVs in the world will not give you the answer that you are...

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Lead by example

Society tells us both in social and in monetary terms that it wishes us to be leaders. The higher up you are in the social pyramid the more people you theoretically have following you and depending on...

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The small stuff

When you live life in the fast lane it is easy to lose sight of the forest for all the trees. There as so many meetings and e-mails and phone calls and memos and presentations and customer visits and...

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Google Play

As a hobby I like to buy and develop under used domains. If I have 10 minutes I might sit down and randomly search terms that come to mind or ideas which have popped into my head. Personally I am not...

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Omotenashi – Standardizing Service

For anyone who has worked manufacturing, engineering or with improving business processes the Japanese concept of Kaizen should not be anything new. The idea of constant improvement pioneered by...

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Capturing value in synergies

There was a time in my life when my head just kept spinning and wouldn’t stop even for a second for me to find some kind of direction whatever I tried. So I went to see my friend Takuya who, having...

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Act on ideas

I believe that most things have already been thought of by someone a lot more clever than myself. For this reason ideas in themselves hold no real intrinsic value. They are like the bubbles in your...

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Four cornerstones of startup success

At 34 years of age this is the 5th time that I am starting a business. As far as being in the driver’s seat this is only the second time but over the course of 10 years I have developed a pretty keen...

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The Big Picture

There is a scene in the beginning of the  Bruce Lee movie “Enter the Dragon” where Bruce is instruction a younger student on fighting as a concept. It goes like this: Lee: Don’t think. FEEEEEEEEL!...

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The value of critique

When you were young it seemed like not even an hour went by without some adult telling you where to not put your fingers or to finish all those nasty vegetables because for some reason they are good...

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A good customer complains

Dealing with complaints is something that I have had to do throughout my working life. When I was a waiter the food was either late, to cold, not salty enough, too salty, not comparable to the price...

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