Japan leaders
What do leaders in Japan need to do? S Walkley button.gif Stuart Walkley 30 Mar 2011 A great friend of mine, Hiromi Nezaki, with whom I worked in Japan during the 1990s, has remained a consultant coach there working throughout the country with many of the major companies. Inevitably her concerns are enormous at the moment around the whole issue of leadership in Japan. In her recent email to me she commented with the controlled emotion and understatement typical of Japanese people: "We are not totally sure what this will affect in business in Japan this year. Although we all know that we are tested how to overcome the challenge." The task is far greater than those facing almost any of us in our typical business world and the meaning behind the words "disaster", "meltdown", "devastation" and "crisis" take on far greater significant and urgency, challenging our all-too-glib use of such words. Leaders often come to the fore during a crisis...