Business-Do: The Way to Successful Leadership

In Principles for Success, Mikitani shares the principles and advice culled from his remarkable career. The book pays homage to Bushido, a Japanese word meaning -the way of the warrior-, namely, the code of moral principles that govern a samurai's life. Mikitani is a trailblazer in the global economy. Since he founded Rakuten in 1997, it has grown to become one of the world's largest e-commerce platforms, with a rapidly expanding global footprint. Mikitani will share: his personal advice for self-improvement; the importance of the Internet as a fundamentally transformative technology; the collaborative, nimble Silicon Valley approach to business; his own management techniques of empowerment, constant questioning and constant improvement; his optimistic vision for a technology-enhanced, globally linked world of the future industry-specific predictions about the future.