In a recent conversation with a Japanese executive, he told me that “the Japanese are not resilient.”  Since I think the Japanese have demonstrated remarkable resilience in the last 70 years, I was really taken aback by his assertion.  After recovering from my surprise, I questioned him more closely, and it turns out that his

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For several months, I’ve been thinking about starting a blog focused on the practice and the challenge of my organizational development (OD) work, in both California, US and in Tokyo, Japan—and also, the interplay between them. I have applied “California” ideas and practices in Tokyo, and vice versa, and doing so has expanded my repertoire

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