My understanding of it might be a bit different to what you believe the reason is.

I have had great team sessions where the GM was involved as well and encouraged all to think very outside the box and I was amazed how they all worked together and came up with some brilliant ideas and solutions for existing problems.

I even had the GM openly apologize for an error/decision he made and said it was a good experience after all as the team now understood what not to do in such case.

He really set the example by questioning the directions and decisions made by the HQ and encouraging his people to do the same to him.

In the end he was fired, I believe because he was pointing out the stupid ideas HQ wanted to implement. He was replaced for someone that knew nothing about the bizz, but was easy to control.

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Sad to learn he got fired.

Isn't that exactly what the feodal system and hierarchy in Japan is all about ?

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He questioned the white skinned foreigners in charge that are based in Europe making decisions for countries they have never been to.

My experience of the Japanese is a tad different to yours, by the sound of it Alex. Yes I have been there several times and I was quite good at speaking, alas not many people to practice with, so now I am extremely rusty.

This is not me trying to slag off the Japs, as they are VERY good at many things including being extremely good at stealing other peoples inventions and refining the production methods. But even then, on the face of it the production lines look to operate with great precision until you get behind it. Where, in Japan at least, they have vast amounts of Phillipino's "fettling" away at castings etc to get them to a standard that can go on the line.

The Japanes "Ringi" system is notoriously slow and frustrating to get a decision out of anyone.

Ever been to a Japanese petrol station? I dare anyone to tell me that is the most efficient use of a work force.

If they want to get rid of someone who works in the office, they will sit him facing out of a window with no desk or computer, so that he loses face and eventually quits.

They are just some of the negatives and I could go on. I could also mention many, many positives. I just hate it when people talk about all of the good things the Japanese do and never mention the bad bits.

Only in my opinion of course.

If they want to get rid of someone who works in the office, they will sit him facing out of a window with no desk or computer, so that he loses face and eventually quits.

Quits or jumps?

If they want to get rid of someone who works in the office, they will sit him facing out of a window with no desk or computer, so that he loses face and eventually quits.

Quits or jumps?

Good point, well made. Of course he does have a third option of falling on his sword !

The Donnybrook in the Democratic Party of Japan

Written by Todd Crowell

Monday, 06 September 2010

Ozawa Sizes Up his Chances

Kan and Ozawa fight for the soul of a flailing political party

Almost exactly a year after the Democratic Party of Japan took office following its historic blowout general election victory, Japanese voters, a few of them anyway, go to the polls on September 14 to decide who will be Japan's next prime minister – and the future direction of the party as well.

The venue will be the election to the presidency of the party by DPJ members of the Diet, Japan's parliament, as well as DPJ prefectural legislators and those of the public who are card-carrying members of the party. The person elected president automatically will assume the post of prime minister.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan won the presidency against one no-hoper last June in a special party election held in the wake of former Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's resignation. Now he is being challenged by Ichiro Ozawa, the party's backroom powerhouse and a man who would have been prime minister save for a political funding scandal (he is still under investigation).

Full story:

http://asiasentinel....2681&Itemid=176

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