Earlier this year I led a Lean study trip to the Japanese town of Ashikaga, which considers itself to be the “5S Mecca of the world”. As I wrote about in the first part of […]
When I met with the President of a Tokyo metropolitan hospital a few weeks ago, he invited me to attend upcoming monthly Quality Committee held monthly. The next meeting was less than two weeks later, […]
Earlier this week I went to Nagoya for a day trip to visit with my friend and Toyota mentor, Mr. Isao Yoshino, where we got to talking about leadership and developing people at Toyota and […]
A few weeks ago, as I’ve written about in recent posts, I attended two conferences in Japan related to health care innovation and management. In Japan, there is much focus right now on Prime Minister […]
Six months ago exactly, my family arrived in Japan on an 18-24 month assignment. On our first morning in Tokyo, I wrote my first blog post to document my intentions for what I wanted to accomplish […]
My first impressions about the gender divide in Japan continue to be validated as I have lived here for several more months. Despite having one of the highest rates of females who have completed higher […]
First Lady Akie Abe’s thoughts about the role of women I’ve written before about the gender gap in Japanese culture. Last month I had the opportunity to hear First Laday Akie Abe share her perspective on […]
First impressions I have never experienced the gender divide in terms of roles as acutely as I have in the past three weeks. 95% of the women I have met who have children, both foreigners […]
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