What we have learned about building people who deliver results in English — from our research and from the work itself.
Why Your Well-Managed Japan Organization Does Not Move
The meetings are excellent and nothing starts. Your Japan organization is among the best managed in the world, measured against 9,000 firms in 20 countries. What is missing is the second job: setting direction and moving people. Kotter’s distinction, the gap measured inside Japanese firms, and four changes that cost nothing.
Why English Training in Japan Fails to Deliver Results
You fund the training. Your Japan team completes it. And still they remain quiet in meetings, and concede in negotiations. The problem lies in the design of the training, not the amount of it. Five reasons English training in Japan fails, and the six conditions that change the outcome.
In preparation
- The problem is not English — four leadership patterns that deliver results globally
- “Based on second language acquisition theory” — which theory, exactly?