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Tokyo Olympic became a game changer
Coaching from Sub Zero — fighting against COVID-19 with Zoom / Spring 2021 / Week 7
I know we have pros and cons to this current Olympic. I was also not 100% pros to this event, especially at this timing, but we may find this event becoming the game changer to the next chapter of global society. The following story was explored at the home dining room at my lifelong mentor, Professor Hiro Takeuchi, still active at Harvard Business School and station in Minami Aoyama, Tokyo.
Gagi, my junior friend and Takeuchi Zemi member, and I conducted interesting mission last weekend in Minami Aoyama. Along with tasting good cold coffee, Takeuchi Sensei, kindly told his story at Olympic.
He was a volunteer at Tokyo 1964 as English translator, and this event open his mind-set to global, as he always says. Now Tokyo 2020. He asked Nobu-san (great his wife) to prepare the application to volunteer again, with low profile. Now he is enjoying his volunteer work at KOKUGIKAN (originally Sumo stadium. But now using for boxing at Olympic).
“Hiro, Gagi, I am observing remarkable scene at Olympic. This time no spectator these and all staffs and volunteers…