Greg Story, Master Trainer at Dale Carnegie Training Tokyo, recently interviewed first time author Darren McKellin. The interview is engaging and gives the listener a first hand look into life and business in Japan through the eyes of an American who first moved to Japan 30 years ago. McKellin recently published the successful business text, Mind Over …
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Brevity with potency is efficient, and productive. Of this, we can all appreciate. So it occurs with this 117 page gamut by Darren McKellin. One need not be in sales to reap the harvest of fruitful practice that emerges from the accumulated detritus of McKellin’s learning, experience and mentors. Each chapter resonates with universally applicable …
Darren McKellin is well known around Tokyo as an avid practitioner of meditation and proponent of mindful action in all settings. He is also a gifted storyteller with an advanced sense of humor which he uses to challenge those around him to be better versions of themselves. I’m delighted that Darren has written Mind over …
It has been an incredible October here in Japan, especially on the global sports stage. Japan hosted the Volleyball Men’s World Cup, Rugby World Cup, F1 Race at Sasazuka, 2 NBA games (Raptors vs Rockets), and as I write Tiger Woods is in Chiba and leading the ZOZO Championship which is the first golf tournament …
…Tokyo restaurants are the best in the world, by far. There is always a new unexpected surprise which will lead tourists think over and over “did I really just see that?” I have been to my fare share of big cities around the world and in my mind Tokyo is #1. It is a city of …
Is Japan finally embracing a more inclusive definition of what it is to be a Japanese thanks to sport? Japan is a uniquely homogenous country on a planet in which most countries are steadily becoming more and more diverse. Immigrants make up just two per cent of Japan’s population with the majority from Korea and …
The 2019/2020 season is shaping up to be an interesting one for the NFC North. Last year, out of nowhere, the Bears won the North and Khalil Mack had a dominant season of ripping the ball out of the arms of opposing offensive players every week. The previous season the Vikings dominated and one year …
“You can’t help the poor by being one of them.” – Abe Lincoln The well-known, but misquoted verse from the Bible on wealth is not “Money is the root of all evil,” the real quote is, “The love of money is the root of all evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10) Wealth is actually neutral. Greed is …
The enlightened leader knows that in business, conflicts between workers, customers and vendors are unavoidable and often beyond our control. However, we do have control over our reaction to conflict. The ability to identify and resolve conflict is a key attribute of good leadership. Leaders who cannot resolve office conflicts will risk having their top …
For you casual Beatles fans, there is a great treat to be found. I guess many of you have never listened to “Love”, a soundtrack remix album of music recorded by The Beatles and released in 2006, I hadn’t until just a few days ago. It features compiled and remixed Beatles music and was produced …
East Portland Blog’s Japan Correspondent, Darren McKellin, has written and performed a song dedicated to everyone in Japan since March 11, 2011.
The NFC North is a division of the National Football League’s National Football Conference. It currently has three members: the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, and Minnesota Vikings, with the Detroit Lions playing on the NFC North Junior Varsity. The Bears, Packers and Lions have been in the same division or conference since the NFL …
I have a lot of friends and acquaintances who are not on Facebook. Some have quit, some never joined. A large portion of them seem to infer that they are too superior to join Facebook, that Facebook is only for “people with no lives” or that Facebook is somehow evil. Facebook is neither good nor …
Thirty years ago today, March 2, 1984, the film This is Spinal Tap was released. This rockumentary, or mockumentary, directed by Rob Reiner, featured Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel), Michael McKean (David St. Hubbins), Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls), and a bevy of actors and actresses in guest spots. Numerous actors filled in the role of drummer. …
I know posts to EPB tend to be quite short and oftentimes are simply a link to something someone has deemed worthy in his/her view. That is not a criticism; I too embrace brevity. This weekend people traveled from afar, eg. Japan, CA, WA, CO, and NH, to pay Ken Olson last respects at a …