August 21, 2026 It is said that everyone needs leadership skills while not everyone will become a business manager. For many years now, I have been considering what leadership is, and how to develop leadership skills in the first place. There have been many leaders throughout history. Take Steve Jobs and Abraham Lincoln, for example. Consider Jobs’s ingenuity: he returned to Apple when its performance was slumping, streamlined the Mac lineup—which had ballooned to 30 models—

July 23, 2026 When I first started working in accounting, whenever I encountered something I didn’t understand, I would flip through a thick rulebook, track down a senior colleague to ask questions, and if I still wasn’t satisfied, I’d stay up late mulling it over. It took a long time to figure out the answer, and it was probably an inefficient method. But looking back now, I think it was precisely “the time when answers weren’t immediately available” that helped hone my cri

June 23, 2026 Eight years ago, when I began taking management more seriously, I decided to formalize TOPC Potentia’s corporate policy and communicate its fundamentals to all of our staff members. Even if you have a vision for the kind of company you want to build, it won’t happen unless you can effectively share that vision. I didn’t just focus on what kind of company we were; I also wanted to consider what kind of company we should become. We held a series of informal gather