Leading High Performing Remote Teams
How can leaders ensure that performance remains high in remote or hybrid-work environments?
Content Marketing
In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
Get started on your content marketing journey today.
Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
It's time to find out.
Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
CAGE Distance Framework
Want to expand overseas? The CAGE distance framework can help ensure you're constructing a solid global strategy in four areas: cultural, administrative, economic, and geographic. Learn how to leverage useful differences between countries, identify potential obstacles, and achieve global business success.
Servant Leadership
There's more to leadership than driving a team to profit. In fact, there's a word for looking beyond self-interest to prioritize individual growth: servant leadership. Try this course for a quick breakdown of what that is, how it works, and how it can lead to organizational success.
Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
Have you ever wondered why certain companies are more successful than others? The answer is strategy: internal processes that control costs, allocate resources, and create value. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can give you the tools you need for that strategic edge.
Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
To plan strategy on any level, you need to understand your company's external environment. In fact, your level of understanding can impact hiring, budgeting, marketing, or nearly any other part of the business world. Want to learn how to do all that? This course from GLOBIS Unlimited is the perfect first step!
Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
Japanese companies have unique cultural, communication, and operational challenges. But they also have values that have led to remarkable longevity. Check out this seminar to hear how these values help earn trust from overseas head offices and develop employees.
Marketing: Reaching Your Target
Every company works hard to get its products into the hands of customers. Are you doing everything you can to compete? In this course, you’ll find a winning formula to turn a product idea into real sales. Follow along through the fundamentals of the marketing mix and see how companies successfully bring products to market.
Basic Accounting: Financial Analysis
Want to compare your performance vs. a competitor? Or evaluate a potential vendor? Then you'll need to conduct a financial analysis. This course will teach you how to use three financial statements and evaluate financial performance in terms of profitability, efficiency, soundness, growth, and overall strength.
Career Anchors
What drives you to be good at your job?
Career anchors are based on your values, desires, motivations, and abilities. They are the immovable parts of your professional self-image that guide you throughout your career journey.
Try this short GLOBIS Unlimited course to identify which of the eight career anchors is yours!
Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
The key ingredient to success? Passion.
Finding your kokorozashi will unify your passions and skills to create positive change in society. This GLOBIS Unlimited course will help you develop the values and lifelong goals you need to become a strong, passion-driven leader.
Have you ever considered the possibility of a synchronous world recession? I found myself thinking about this lately, envisioning various scenarios. And I began to think about the era that would follow such a situation.
Imagine this: the US economy goes into decline, and shortly after that we have a worldwide recession. It’s easy to predict that this would last a long time. Amidst this global depression, a question arises:
Is capitalism really the best system for humanity?
Creating Value beyond Capitalism
Since communism collapsed, the economic models governing the world have been rooted in capitalistic ideology, which mobilizes the economy through a lust for money. This same capitalism is destroying nature and giving rise to lots of problems, like global warming and environmental toxins. It may not necessarily be the best system for the environment and human health.
It’s time we begin a quest for a new framework.
Several years ago at Harvard Business School (HBS), the bastion of capitalism, I learned all about the concept of markets and the principles that make our current society work. At HBS, as with the Forbes ranking of wealthy people, the net worth you accumulate is the basic structure of the value system. In other words, “those who make money = great.”
But over the past two years, I have scientifically studied methods for making money by creating value for society. In all seriousness, I even bet a friend one dollar that I would have the higher net worth by the first day of 2001. But when I look at the bubble in Japan and the way people maintain a life of materialism amid the bubble in Asia, I wonder whether the scale of money really is so important.
Money, at the end of the day, is a scale of material value, a medium of exchange, a means for saving. It is nothing more and nothing less than coins and notes representing an economic concept. Even if you acquire enough money to become a billionaire, “greatness” is hardly guaranteed.
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If we did face that synchronous world depression, our way of thinking would surely change as a society. I’d expect a paradigm shift away from the value system of capitalism. Is increasing GNP really that important in the first place? How much value comes from simply having more money? I think these doubts would start to rise in everyon as a matter of course.
But where would that leave us? What’s the new paradigm that will create value beyond capitalism?
Satisfactionism for Social Impact
The first half of the twentieth century was all about military power, then the second half centered on business models of capitalism. I think that the twenty-first century, including economic models and business models, will focus on inner satisfaction.
Simply put, we are entering an age in which value will depend on more than how much money we make. We’ll learn to value an abundance of heart, the dreams and emotions we inspire in others, and the number of people we guide toward a new way of living. Perhaps this means something new, or perhaps it means a return to the value system we had before capitalism and militarism.
As someone involved in business, my greatest interest is not in how much money I can make, but in how much value I can create. How much can I share my dream with good friends? How many people are receiving a quality education from my efforts? How many people I am able to help toward bettering their lives?
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For me, the network of staff and students at GLOBIS represent an immeasurable fortune.
Balancing Two Kinds of Value
Having said all that, sales and profits remain very important. Going forward, those simply won’t be the only way to measure value.
Just as there are the numerical scales for monetary profits, there should be a scale of the heart that determines how many people we are impacting for the better. These two scales must exist alongside each other, inextricably linked and balanced.
As a manager, I have a responsibility to my stakeholders to increase sales and profits. If profit does not increase, I cannot pay my staff’s salaries or produce returns for stockholders. Many people will be unhappy. This part of business is still within the framework of the capitalist paradigm.
But unless the products and services a company offers, as well as a company’s management principles, deliver a sense of psychological satisfaction, profits and turnover will not rise. Therefore, even as we maintain the capitalist framework of sales and profit, society will begin to place higher priority on a new value system.
Amid the social and economic chaos at the end of this era, I wonder how people will start to change their sense of value. The twenty-first century may become truly bountiful.