The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Mr Nakatani and the Gold Plated Room   The snow was heavy as the bus pulled out of the Yamashiro Hot Spring Hotel. Twenty minutes later we were deposited in front of a large store, designed to entice tourists to spend up big.  Our tour group obediently trotted in toward an area at the back, appointed with fold away chairs arranged schoolroom style. We were all facing an incredible reproduction of warrior leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s famous gold tea ceremony room.  Every single square millimeter of this room was covered in gold sheeting, including the fire alarm!   Mr. Nakatani, a young man in his thirties opened up the presentation.  About five minutes into the detail about how they make the gold sheets, how they apply them to make a whole wall, the time involved to complete one section, I started to notice something unusual about Mr. Nakatani.  He was speaking in Japanese, but he was doing something remarkable.    He sometimes spoke with passion, energy, enthusiasm and then he would switch and speak in more