Gen beat me to it but it’s true – Sony finally clears out some of the old guard, which it should have done years ago. In a culture highly regarded for the respect it gives (gave?) for the elders (especially at the advisors’ generation), it was difficult for division Presidents and SVPs to make independent [...]
Imagine an executive, constrained by fiduciary duty, who knows that a soon-to-be-laid-off colleague is about to buy an expensive house. Should he warn his friend?
What do you think? I found myself in such a situation this afternoon with 3 Japanese managers on one side of a meeting table and an American consultant and myself on [...]
Every day at exactly 15:00, a five-minute exercise (mostly stretches) chimes through the company-wide PA system in a female voice over soothing background music. Of course, hardly anyone bothers to pay attention. It’s just another remnant of the “old days” – like the rubber date-stamps that need manual tweezer-changing. Anyways, having a [...]
Actually, this should read “Microsoft, Sonys Announce iPod Competitors”. It’s almost humorous how analogous Sony is to Cerberus.
Resona extending hours!
From 3pm to … to … to … 5pm! Ooooo.
Apparently Shinsei’s success hasn’t been much of a learning experience for them.
Disclaimer: It shouldn’t have to be said, but all views expressed throughout this blog are strictly my own and in no way reflect those of my employer. However, I have become increasingly open to documenting experiences which happen within Sony only as examples of a culture inside a Japanese company that claims to be [...]
This interesting article, originally from the NYT, sheds some light in connection to my previous post also originally sourced from the NYT. Being half Japanese, I have Japanese middlenames representable by characters. The English side of my business card has only initials for my middle names, but the Japanese side spells them out [...]
Today’s quote from the Nihon Keizai Shinbun:
If foreign students tell everyone how they hate this country once they go home, we should ask to what purpose we are hosting them to begin with.
courtesy of Japan Today. Could anyone be any more irrational? This kind of “thinking” needs to stop. I know the [...]
Had dinner listening to some serious Macintosh history within Sony the other night. Koh took some pictures here. Also met a few who know an ol’ acquaintance from years ago — what a small world. Six degrees is only an average, that’s for sure.
Companies in Japan which contribute to the national social insurance (Shakai Hoken) program, which is almost all of them, are required once a year to subject their employees to a medical check rendered by a local contractor. For newcomers to Japan these checks are almost quaintly primitive, both in testing technique and as an invasion [...]
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