Opportunity One of John’s oldest clients, a world leader in the optical products field, had a confidential search for a Head of Sales open for over a year. It had started prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the global situation worsened, the client’s need to fill this role became more urgent. The successful candidate …
Opportunity One of the world’s leading commercial real estate firms asked Asim Sarwar to help them find a Japanese bilingual Finance Manager. The successful candidate would have to be based in Japan, hired by the Tokyo office, and then subsequently sent to London for at least three years to lead a real estate project that …
Opportunity A new law coming into effect on April 1, 2005, would allow Japanese law firms to hire foreign lawyers as partners directly, without the need to establish a tokutei kyodo jigyo (joint enterprise office). This would enable them to more aggressively market their services to overseas companies looking to invest in Japan – traditionally …
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Opportunity Laurens had been successfully servicing an international brand in the footwear industry for many years when they engaged him in early 2020 to search for an APAC sales director who would lead the company’s expansion in the Asian market. He came close to a successful candidate introduction, but then the coronavirus hit and their …
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Years from now, you may not remember the particulars of deals you closed at Zensho (or what the returns were). You will remember your colleagues and how it felt to work with them. The imprint you left on the world.
We invited you to join our tribe because you impressed us as someone who shares values intrinsic to our culture. But just to ensure we’re totally on the same page, here they are, spelled out in black and white and trimmed in our corporate colors.
Freedom is Zensho’s central pillar. Beyond the mere state of being free, for us the word carries with it a sense of obligation: “Freedom to…” What follows should define you as a person. Of course, to provide your business community with amazing service, but also to engage and give back to the world. And that’s where Autonomy comes in. Unlike the general implications of self-rule, ours leads not to detachment but to a broad and radical sense of interconnectivity. One that enables each of us to commune with others in infinite ways. Together, these two values empower you like nothing else on earth, and they’re here waiting for you.
So, what do we ask in return?
Transparency means not only having open books, but being one yourself. No secrets or ulterior agendas. It is to share personal and industry information without seeking to leverage it for profit or motivate others in any way. Its cousin, Clarity, is about including precision and context in the communication process. At Zensho, we always try to anticipate the details a fellow partner might need and supply them up front.
Which leads us to…
Collaboration. That is, to cooperate meaningfully. Because only through recognizing individual strengths can we thrive as a whole. For us, collaboration requires presence as we listen and respond, evolving toward a collective goal represented by the name of our charity initiative: Ayni (reciprocity). This can’t exist without Collegiality. How we care for each other and the tribe as a whole, share both opportunity and responsibility with open hearts – that’s what empowers us to excel as a firm.
With these six in place, our seventh value happens all by itself.
Harmony. When your environment manifests balance between all people and things – even forces that oppose each other – life just flows. Living completely becomes a state of being. After all, that’s the very meaning of Zensho.