Japan’s World Champions

03/06/2015.Reading time 6 minutes.

A major event took place in Tokyo this past weekend at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo. Held were the 16th World K […]

The Game of Squirt

06/05/2015.Reading time 19 minutes.

A balmy Sunday morning. Maya blue hues the sky as far as Palermo, and an unabashed Sun bathes the high-rises i […]

19/12/2014.Reading time 12 minutes.

At the year draws to a close, we think about the past year and make resolutions about what we will do in the n […]

11/12/2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

People often ask me to describe a leader. My pithy answer is to suggest that you will recognize a leader when […]

18/11/2014.Reading time 8 minutes.

Business Week’s 2014 ranking of MBA programs makes the magazine surveyors a laughing stock. It takes little a […]

02/09/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Wednesday, September 10, is World Suicide Prevention Day. This year’s theme is ‘Suicide Prevention: One World […]

31/07/2014.Reading time 4 minutes.

There is an Italian flavor in the city of Nice on the Côte d’Azur. This is not surprising considering th […]

15/05/2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

Yesterday I listened to Paul Sheard, Chief Global Economist and Head of Global Economics and Research for Stan […]

08/05/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

At 35.65% Japan has a higher taxation rate than any other country in the world, except the United States (40%) […]

15/01/2014.Reading time 3 minutes.

Yesterday I joined a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan at which three leading Japan […]