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Ron McFarland has been working in Japan for over 40 years, and he's spent more than 30 of them in international sales, sales management training, and expanding sales worldwide. He's worked in or been to more than 80 countries. Over the most recent 17 years, Ron had established distributors in the United States and throughout Europe for a Tokyo-headquartered, Japanese hardware cutting tool manufacturer. More recently, he's begun giving seminars in English and Japanese to people interested in his overseas travels and expanding business overseas. You can find him on LinkedIn.
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Great article. I'm very excited about the "community at the center of everything we do" that you mentioned, particularly globally. As translation/interpreting technology improve, I can see this "community" having even more diverse groups of people. I'm in Tokyo and very much hope that the Japanese will be more involved in that community than they already are.
Very good suggestions. As of a month ago, I started the end of my full-time career, and am now starting to work only two days/week in the office in the center of Tokyo. I'm worried about stuffing the excess time with so many projects that will not achieve the balance you mentioned. Your suggestions of activities/percentages are helpful . Also, the quote, "Stop starting and start finishing" really struck me as one of the secrets. It is such a great feeling when something is achieved and finished. Unfortunately that feeling can be so powerful that the tendency to overcommit as you mentioned intensifies.