Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Attraction & trust yourself - Mr. Yoshida tip 2

Mr. Yoshida had a chance to lecture his business success story and experience at the MBA class.  He was asked about the business risk management.  Then he questioned the students what they would do before they get on the bus.  Most of them answered perfectly like check the direction, distance, gasoline, mileage, budget and etc.

Without thinking these at all, he would just get on the bus to drive right away. Then, he was asked what he could do if  he ran out the gas on the way. He responded immediately that he got off the bus and pushed it.  They laughed at him.

He continued if  he was pushing bus so hard, most people would laugh at him that you were foolish.  But showing his own passion, some people might stop their cars and push the bus together.  He added that it is important to make it move.  It is not the point if it moves or not.


When I made the big decisions in my life, I did not think so much with all details such as risk management.  But I trusted my own feeling and passion as well as a kind of my intuition.  Maybe it is right to say guts or someone might say that I was foolish.

Mr. Yoshida's story encouraged me because I want to drive the bus, not just ride on the bus as a passenger.  Of  course,  not to miss the bus.

If you spend too much time to study and consider the risk management, you will miss a chance.  It is because you get a fear (in a sense, too smart) and you cannot step forward.

I would say that you should trust yourself what you wanna do and just do it.  Even if you made a mistake, you would learn something more than taking MBA classes.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Positive Revenge - tip 1

I volunteered at Jaycee in Japan for four years for the local community, my home town, after I went back from Tokyo working for the US companies more than 15 years. I was mid 30's which was almost 20 years after I left my home town.

What a culture shock I got!  I was so frustrated with many things.  Then, I remember that I once told the members and myself that;

  •  Anger is also the driving force.  And step forward, we need the courage.
Junki talked about the same thing as referring to "Positive Revenge" in his book. It is a little bit different from positive thinking.  You are not satisfied what you are now.  So, you are upset with it and use its energy to move forward.

These days, I also worry about Japan.  Because the young generation is so quiet even if they faced with some unreasonable things in the politics, economy and etc.  Why did they get angry?  If they gave it up already, Japan will go to sink.  It is also our generation responsibility to have driven them that way.

The education is one of the most important keys to make everyone and everything happy in this world.  We have been leaving something behind us.

Let's make a Positive Revenge what you can do now!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Keep on dreaming - Junki Yoshida

In the USA, a lot of people know Yoshida BBQ source and he is also famous in Japan as one of American dream successors.

He recently published his book; The Seven Laws of Business; e.g. 46 business tips. 

Actually, he does not talk about the way of success but he talks about the way of life.  He almost got chapter 11 four times in his life but he never gave up.

When I found some same briefs what he was talking about, I was encouraged. I will make some notes from time to time referring his tips.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

新年快楽!

This year, 1/23 (Mon) is the new year of lunar calendar. All Asian countries still keep the lunar calendar to celebrate their own countries culture but Japan.  I once tried to bring back some local community events per lunar calender when I was in Japan but it did not turn out well.

It is a kind of shame that Japan gave up this kind of tradition and we are no longer celebrate the new year by lunar calendar.  It is very important to thank you the nature per lunar calendar and it is how they feel the four seasons well in Asia.  This can be only applied in Asia but Japan seems to be forgetting this importance.

Happy new year, my friends in Asia !

I wish you all happy new year for the Dragon.


Thursday, January 19, 2012

Patent Top 20 in 2011

Rank  Grants                Company Name                                   Country
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  1       6180      International Business Machines Corp            United States
  2       4894     Samsung Electronics Co Ltd KR                     Korea
  3       2821     Canon K K JP                                                Japan
  4       2559      Panasonic Corp JP                                        Japan
  5       2483     Toshiba Corp JP                                             Japan
  6       2311      Microsoft Corp                                              United States
  7       2286     Sony Corp JP                                                 Japan
  8       1533     Seiko Epson Corp JP                                     Japan
  9       1514     Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd TW            Taiwan
 10      1465     Hitachi Ltd JP                                                 Japan
 11      1448     General Electric Co                                         United States
 12     1411      LG Electronics Inc KR                                     Korea
 13     1391      Fujitsu Ltd JP                                                 Japan
 14     1308      Hewlett-Packard Development Co L P             United States
 15     1248      Ricoh Co Ltd JP                                             Japan
 16     1244      Intel Corp                                                       United States
 17     1164      Broadcom Corp                                              United States
 18     1095      GM Global Technology Operations LLC            United States
 19     1005      Renesas Electronics Corp JP                           Japan
 20       997      Honda Motor Co Ltd JP                                   Japan

Source : IFI Claims Patent Services

Top 20 per Country is
       Japan . : 10
       US.      :  7
       Korea. :  2
      Taiwan. :  1

To be honest with you, I did not know that Japanese companies patent files were so many granted. The question is how it relates with the business growth and success.

In the next 10 years, we might see other countries names such as China, India, Russia and etc.

How do you read this ranking for your business ?

Sunday, January 15, 2012

G'Day USA

After CES 2012 in Las Vegas, I am here in LA for some business meetings through this weekend. Last night, I was invited to the film festival in Hollywood and enjoyed the red carpet event.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Invent it - 創造

Alan Kay
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

It is one of the famous Alan Kay Quotes. Good time to remember this under the current tough economy circumstances.


It is one of my business motto - Co-existing with co-invention.



「未来を予言する最良の方法は、自らそれをつくり出すことである」

これはパソコンの父とも呼ばれているアラン・ケイの有名な言葉のひとつです。 現在の大変な経済状況下で覚えておきたいことです。

私のビジネスのモットーの一つに「共創」があります。