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‘Respecting tradition’

Yoshinori Hara, dean and professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Management, says these long-standing entities, at least 100 years old, are known as ‘shinise’ – literally meaning ‘old shop’.

Hara, who worked in Silicon Valley for a decade, says that Japanese companies’ emphasis on sustainability, rather than quick... See more

In the West, where companies are laying off middle managers by the thousands, the very term “middle manager” has become almost a term of contempt, synonymous with “backwardness,” “stagnation,” and “resistance to change.” Yet we are arguing that middle managers are the key to continuous innovation. We disagree with the assessment of some of the

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