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Smile, you’ve been fired!

On March 8, 2011 By pepi

One of the first causes of stress in the work place is insecurity. Our economies are crumbling, thus, the insecurity at work is making our workers crumble. But how? Making them feel inside of tiny little coffins.

Is your boss demanding from you more and more each time, making you overload? We are so [...]

Burn out at work

On March 6, 2011 By pepi

What happens when you feel stressed out and really burn out at work? Simply, that you stop being productive. Recent tendencies have been proved as harmful for the mental and physical health of workers. In other words, work, like is commonly thought nowadays, is terribly harmful for our health. Let’s think about the workaholic who [...]

The current economic system is a Frankenstein

On February 25, 2011 By pepi

The current finance markets are nothing more than small Frankensteins. This is what the french journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud argues. We are living in a time where countries around the world are crying out for freedom… However, the receipt for liberty or freedom is not what markets want because “it’s not profitable”.

Freedom [...]

From Highways to Freeways: what’s hidden underneath

On January 8, 2011 By pepi

The global crisis is creating regional problems around the world. An unnoticed (and interesting) one has been the transformation of Highways in Japan into Freeways. In order to give a great stimulus to the economy of the country, the Japanese Government put into place a plan for “freeing” the highways of the country. In [...]

Starting up in Japan

On December 19, 2010 By pepi

To start a business, whatever it is about, wherever in the world we are thinking to start it, we need to invest. I’m sure that when you listen to the word “investment” you are mainly thinking about “money”, but in fact what you have to invest are three different things, and yes one is money. [...]

Doing Business with Japanese #1- Americans

On November 7, 2010 By pepi

Every culture has its own cultural hidden and unhidden codes. These codes color all aspects of everyday life, including business. Culture, we like it or not, is communication. Every cultural world works with its own internal dynamics, its own principles and laws. Failing to grasp, understand or deal with them could be disastrous if we [...]