I was at a meeting late last year where VP here in Japan said, “All Coca Cola products are healthy.” I couldn’t believe he could say that with a straight face.
Maybe he considered cancer a healthy condition?
Healthy Coca Cola Drinks
Feb 8
Over the years, I have driven various cars brands from Europe, the US, and Japan. My biggest disappointment was the shoddy workmanship in my American-made Jeep Cherokee. Which we purchased because Chrysler was customer of my previous company. I am very big on supporting those who work with you.
Beads of glue were coming from under the molding along the body of the car. I think they have gotten better since the first Cherokee imports into Japan.
Probably the best brand I have seen is Toyota of Japan. The service, the support, and the workmanship is clearly well-managed.
It seems very strange to me that after decades of producing some of the best designed, most reliable and best made cars, all the sudden, Toyota is having quality problems. What is going on at Toyota?
Being A Great Speaker
Jan 13
My desire is to be an amazing communicator and challenging people to do the right thing.
In 2009, we saw some pretty great examples of good and bad communications. I will never forget the Miss America winner on Larry King. Although she was clearly shafted for standing up for what she believed in, her performance on Larry King’s show was very awkward and strange. I will not forget that. There are a lot of other great memories from 2009. Check out the Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2009 on the Decker blog here.
What do you think? Spot on or completely off?
The world is filled with people who are prepared to do no more than the absolute minimum necessary to get by. Do you want to be happy in your work? Do you want to experience promotion and financial reward? If so, you’re going to have to consistently do more than is expected of you; get more done than is required; and bring more excellence to your work than the minimum standards demand.
It’s an important key to finding happiness on the job.
-Mac Hammond
IT work In Japan.. Amazing!
Dec 28
Special thanks to our partners! 2009 was amazing.
In 2009 we saw the continued decline of the market. The US government continued to mess up their currency and the dollar has tanked. That hurts for those with savings in USD (c’mon guys, remember the strength of the republic is small government and little involvement in our lives) . More importantly it makes it difficult for American companies with USD-based capital to do as much.
I am sitting here on one of the last days of the office for 2009 and looking at the performance of AINEO. We have had a great year. As one of our sales team told a partner on a recent phone call, “They keep talking about the ‘financial downturn’, but I have not experienced any downturn this year. It has been a great year”.
Technically, we should have seen a downturn as everyone around us seems to have. The number of recruiters decreased. For recruiters, we saw Hudson close their Tokyo office, Access Technology shut down, and Ingenium sell themselves to an IT company. Countless other small recruiters just closed up. The big boys like Robert Walters and Robert Half also had to weather the storm.
In 2009 it wasn’t just recruiters, manufacturers were getting fewer orders, advertising companies lost deals to the crunch, and even the Japanese SME’s were holding off on ordering new equipment. It has been a tough year.
Despite all this, AINEO has had a great year. The reason we had a good year is due to our great partners. If you work with AINEO, I am convinced your business is going to prosper. I think there are two reasons why AINEO is such a great team of professionals.
1) People like AINEO Networks because we do what we say and we are transparent.
2) Working with AINEO brings corporate rewards and our partners expand their businesses.
Special thanks to everyone who has partnered with AINEO in 2009! We will do everything we can to make sure your business can grow.
We are looking forward being a strategic part of your business expansion in 2010!
Insights On Afghanistan
Dec 9
There’s No Limit
Dec 8
“There’s no limit to what we can accomplish if no one cares who gets the credit.”
-Sign of Ronald Reagan’s Desk, as Governor of California, and President of the United States.
The Afghan War
Dec 2
From this week’s Economist magazine. This weeks comic seems to really make their point.
The Afghan War
If you have just come to Japan, you’ll definitely want to experience the internet that they have here. There is a great list of the various companies you can use for your internet access here.
The most cost effective seems to be Excite. From their website, they seem to use this as a way to bring in users for their adult site business.
Next up is Asahi Net, who seems to be the first legitimate provider for the cost. They even have an English homepage if you don’t speak Japanese here.
The amazing thing about Japanese providers is they all provide email addresses with 100 or 200 MB of disk space. Wow! We are in the broadband revolution, I am surprised they haven’t made it to at least 1GB yet.
In the US, for example, Comcast has 10GB even for the add-on accounts.
If you travel much, you’ll see that Japan definitely has the best throughput for broadband internet access in the world.
Back in 2002 AINEO was the first to bring GFI products to Japan. If you are on MS Exchange, you definitely want to be on GFI. I am probably speaking more to administrators than users of mail servers.
The below video does a good job shows a simple but understandable explanation of the threat to PC users.