Roppongi Hills Club – Star Anise

“In modern society, we delegate important aspects of our well-being to the four institutions of business (economic well-being), government (national security and public policy), media (information and knowledge) and NGOs (social causes and issues). In order to feel safe delegating important aspects of our lives and well-being to others, we need to trust them to […]

From the CEO's office perspective, our teams bring various requests. Some require a lot of our attention, while other areas would be better delegated to our management teams. With the recent rise in malicious software attacks, we're seeing more and more techniques used to dive deeper into our businesses. Social engineering, corporate espionage and various […]

For the CEO, there are many variables we must be aware of to manage our business. At CI we talk frequently about taxation, human resources, systems, and many other areas. In taking care of our teams, there are tremendous costs associated with healthcare, retirement, and training. Healthcare is an area that we don't talk about […]

Taxation is always an area of great interest. Japan is a excellent place to live but changes by the Japanese government meant to catch rich Japanese residents coming in and out of Japan have also accidentally applied to foreign residents of Japan as well. In early December, the FY17 proposed tax reforms were announced, which […]

When we began our jobs, we worked on the line and talked with clients directly and dealt with our teams. We had a good understanding of what the customer wanted and how our teams were doing in delivering service. However, as we rose in the ranks and entered into the c-suite, it sometimes becomes more […]