The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Whose Really In Charge?   Japan is going through one round of revelations after another in different industries, where the proper compliance procedures were not followed. In some cases they have not been followed for decades. Which begs the question of who is actually in charge? The senior executives are given reports and rely on those below to feed them the correct information. To make it more interesting the company decides to reduce expenses and raise targets. This is when the creative accounting can really start to ramp up. The shareholders are happy, the Board is happy and so we continue with the winning formula. The only problem is that corners are being cut and procedures are being subverted, in order to meet the “reduce costs, increase revenue” mantra.   Then the whole mess is sprayed across the front page of the newspapers, evening newscasters lead with your firm’s lies and the magazines live off the debris for months. The fake news phenomenon has pointed up the fact that the media is a business. The