The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Two Waves Theory And Covid-19 Leadership   As an Aussie, I enjoy going surfing in Australia.  Blue skies, golden beaches, clean oceans and good surf make the whole experience very enjoyable.  What is less enjoyable is when you catch a wave, get severely dumped, find yourself pressed to the bottom under the weight of the wave and have to struggle to claw your way to air.  You break the surface to grab some air and at that moment, you are smashed by an even bigger wave.  That is where we are as leaders right now.  The First Wave is the virus disruption to business, particularly hammering small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).  The Second Wave is a global recession that takes everyone down.   Naturally in Japan, we initially thought the virus was a Chinese problem, like SARS. Then we discovered that big influx of Chinese tourist money brought with it carriers of the virus.  We also had political leadership who after Cabinet debate, concluded that the 1000 people who had been locked in their cabins on the Dia