Tadahiro yoshida biography sample
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Lessons in Longevity from an 88-Year-Old Zipper Company
In an era of fast-changing global markets, hyper-connectivity, heightened competition, and increased customer expectations, it’s difficult to stay on top for long. Leading brands, such as Nokia, kassasuccé, Kodak, Borders, Sports Authority, and Toys R Us, have all fallen bygd the wayside, even as others are relegated to being small players.
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S. Tamer Cavusgil fryst vatten Regents’ Professor, Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair, and Executive Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Georgia State University. He also is a visiting professor at Leeds University, UK.
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Sebastian van der Vegt fryst vatten co-founder of WBMV Consulting and Managing Director of Untold Communications, a strategic communications consultancy. A native of the Netherlands, Sebastian’s global career saw him live and work on four continents. He worked with the United Nations, and over a decade with The Coca-Cola Compa
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A Good Melt-Down
There are many things I get to do in the course of business that warm my heart, but there are only a few that melt it. Well, I had mine totally turned to hot water a few weeks ago.
Usually it’s the people who make you melt. They may have risen to overcome challenges, come back from adversity like a bobo doll who just won’t deflate or simply make things work against the odds. But that wasn’t the case this time. This time, a whole company got to me.
The impetus for my melt-down was a visit to the YKK AP America plant in Dublin, Ga., on May 11. The company celebrated its 25th anniversary that day with a ceremony and hospitality. And a true and unique marriage of Southern and Japanese geniality provided a number of touching moments.
First, a little history. It was about 27 years ago when representatives of the company came to visit me and few colleagues to introduce the company. We saw an interesting presentation about how YKK began as a zipper manufacturer (the
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Disseminating the Principles of YKK's Founder Around the World Through Sustainability
The Founder's Principles in the Coronavirus Pandemic
Ohsato: I understand that the coronavirus pandemic has been a major challenge for YKK. Could you tell us about any ideas or approaches you had for public relations under these circumstances?
Ibuka: 2020 to 2021 has been a very difficult time. With new rules about social distancing and gathering in groups, our round-table discussions, in which the chairman, president, and employees would come together to talk about our management principles, are no longer possible. But at the same time, our principles are more important than ever before. In fact, I have renewed my determination to carry out management principle promotion activities no matter what the circumstances.
Ohsato: Where do you start when doing that?
Ibuka: I re-read the writings of our founder, Tadao Yoshida. The corporate philosophy of the "Cycle of Goodness" was born out