Reopening from isolation, not only physically, by mindset

Coaching from Sub Zero / Spring 2022, Session 1

Masahiro (Hiro) Nakagawa
3 min readMay 6, 2022
Credit; Hiro Nakagawa @ Mauna Lani, HI

One year has passed from the previous visit to the Big Island in Hawaii, and 4 months from my previous my article at Medium. Now Enjoying sunshine here and fighting for fixing some issues (mainly pest control! Rat!!), I have new thesis for my country, for sure.

<New College program started and incremental innovation>

After 8 years spending in Kyoto, I started to teach management and liberal art at Yamanashi Gakuin University (called YGU (https://www.ygu.ac.jp/en/), 1.5 hours drive west from central Tokyo, near Mr. Fuji; Famous for athletics (desired to be more global), with gorgeous campus, polite students and friendly faculties). Tested a water for one month to find that my teaching method may work here as well, Thanks God. Moreover, commutable from my flat in Tokyo and this makes my passion to improve my teaching program to sparks, Implementing the destructive strategy by Prof. Clayton Christensen (https://youtu.be/tvos4nORf_Y).

I have a confession. During the COVID 19 days, I tried to connect my students to the world as much as I can through Zoom, but most of students decided to work locally. It is not a matter of skill setting, but indeed the mindset…

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