The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Best laid plans of mice and men.  That was 2020 wasn’t it.  We all started that year with our plans, hopes, aspirations and strategies in place.  They all went down in flames and business became a game of catch as can, as we tried to grapple with an unfolding disaster.  In our company’s case, our financial year starts in September and we were up 25% on revenues compared to the same period the previous year.  I hired four more staff in January and had a record breaking year looming in sight.  It was a record breaking year all right, but in the opposite direction to what I expected. What about this year?  Are we any better positioned to plan for 2021?   Japan has seen a state of emergency declared and virus cases leaping higher and higher each day, like the flames of an uncontrollable bush fire wreaking havoc on everything in its path.  Japan, being Japan, won’t accept the vaccine test results like the rest of the world.  No, we have to replicate the tests here again because, well, we are Japanese and are diffe