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...In Japan’s cities, no matter the hour, one is never far from a bright haven of food and comfort....
...And I think we see that as all of our responsibilities as directors and partners in our business, that we should be doing that....
...This week’s podcast is about the future of Japan as a society, as an economy, and as a global power. It comes to you from Tokyo, where I’m gonna be based until early May....
...Jonathan GuthrieWhat’s your observation, having been in this business almost as long as me?...
...The American Dialect Society made it its Word of the Year for 2023 (which, I suppose, means that now I’m definitely getting a poop emoji on my tombstone)....
...“Which means areas like competitiveness, single market, etc, haven’t been taken care of.”...
...Russia’s business elite sat ashen-faced as Putin told them he had been forced to start the war and demanded that they rally around the Kremlin....
...And it feels like a lot of these poll results are just a kind of a collective cri de coeur, you know, like we don’t accept that he’s doing the thing that he is doing....
...And I’m kind of surprised we haven’t evolved more....
...And, even if they left their house, maybe they haven’t seen people as much as they used to. They did spend a lot more time online....
...Private equity investors such as KKR and Japan Industrial Partners are circling. The investor relations business is booming....
...In case you haven’t noticed, it’s hard to trust anything you hear right now. As of tonight, tens of millions of Americans suspect that this election was stolen from them....
...We should be doing more on all these fronts....
...Doing so risks exacerbating tensions between China and the west, which are worsening. It also plays into the hands of those who argue China is doing nothing, which is not true....
...The signs will tell you that it’s because the soundsuits are about processing collective pain, about using celebration and beauty to move us toward joy....
...as well....
...- So why do you think he's doing it? WILL JACKSON: Because it's cool and because it's the future....
...What am I as an influential individual, business leader and member of business organisations doing to increase the capacity of my country and the world to make sensible decisions in the interests of all?...
...I mean, there is a shared responsibility that says nobody wants to kill the industry, but it needs to make sure that as it moves forward, it’s doing so in a legally defensible way....
...The fact that millions of Americans lack a path to financial security has grave implications for our collective welfare. A more financially-literate society will help reverse this trend....
...And you have to understand as a manager, it wasn’t just the inner cabinet or the cabinet, but there were people who were doing rea- . . . all, everybody was doing an important job....
...“There is no line of business that needs difference of perspective more than ours does,” she says. “There’s never one perfect way of doing something. We need more women. We need more ethnic minorities....
...And then, oftentimes, I was too busy to read, doing too many things in fashion,” he says. “I’ll always feel remedial, like I haven’t read enough, that I’m playing catch-up....
...It’s easy to understand why he felt that way, given the weight of such lofty words about the future direction of not just business, but indeed society in general....
...The unprecedented public stand by the prominent African-American executives positions voting rights as the next battleground on which business will be expected to take a stand....
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