Archive for the ‘ Work ’ Category

Completed Three Years

One of my old senior staff, H, said to me, “Continue three years anyway, so it will be something.” Here, I have just completed three years working for this Indian venture company, and, yeah, may I say it is definitely something to me. I don’t know what exactly it means to me, though. This is [ READ MORE ]

Love of Sales

Sales is like the smell of the fresh cookies from the oven in front of a Cookieman shop. To make the effect doubly sure, they pass a piece of cookie to my hand for free. It’s a killer, a bad boy. I can’t resist opening the zipper (of my purse). In another words, sales is [ READ MORE ]

Upgrading Me

I am from Aichi, where TOYOTA dominates the economy. In Aichi, you can see everyone drive TOYOTA cars on the street, because they are not allowed to buy other brands’ cars. Pretty high percent of people have a friend or relatives who work for TOYOTA in a way (even if they are not TOYOTA employees, [ READ MORE ]

Cure for Motivation

My uncle was a successful businessman. One day, when we went to a seaside restaurant together, I found my uncle staring at two fishermen collecting clams in the sea. I asked him what he is watching. He told me that he is observing why one fisherman is collecting more clams than another. There must have [ READ MORE ]

Indian way, Japanese way

People who are in any business between India and Japan must have their original theory to cope with the culture difference of these two countries. Here’s one of the good ones I’ve heard; “Indians learn from their successes, and Japanese learn from their failures.” This explains the Indian optimism and Japanese pessimism very well. What [ READ MORE ]

Describe your character

This is a common question you are asked in interviews or self-introduction, “Describe your character in short words.” I often say my strength is being positive, and my weakness is thoughtlessness. One of my friends said it’s a good one as it has unity. A positive person can be thoughtless. But I am not sure [ READ MORE ]

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