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Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler—hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a “Salaryman”—a guy in a shiny suit with a shiny attaché case in a multinational corporation with 100,000 employees. What led to this extraordinary shift of direction, and why, despite the disillusionment, is it so hard to leave? In The Blue-Eyed Salaryman, Murtagh takes the reader behind the scenes of this huge conglomerate. By turn enlightening, astonishing, and hilarious, his book offers a fresh perspective on the nature of Japanese business culture as well as the many hurdles awaiting the outsider.
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The Blue-eyed Salaryman, Niall Murtagh
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- 2006
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- Title
- The Blue-eyed Salaryman
- Subtitle
- From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Niall Murtagh
- Publisher
- Profile Books(GB)
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 227
- ISBN10
- 1861977891
- ISBN13
- 9781861977892
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Business, Business & Management, Biographies, Travel, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Japan, Tokyo, Sushi
- Original title
- The blue-eyed salaryman
- Rating
- 3.55 out of 5
- Description
- Niall Murtagh spent years as a world traveler—hitchhiking in Istanbul, trekking in Patagonia, crossing the Atlantic in a home-built yacht. In 1986, he closed the door on his life of adventure to settle in Japan. And then, in a breathtaking transition, he joined Mitsubishi as a “Salaryman”—a guy in a shiny suit with a shiny attaché case in a multinational corporation with 100,000 employees. What led to this extraordinary shift of direction, and why, despite the disillusionment, is it so hard to leave? In The Blue-Eyed Salaryman, Murtagh takes the reader behind the scenes of this huge conglomerate. By turn enlightening, astonishing, and hilarious, his book offers a fresh perspective on the nature of Japanese business culture as well as the many hurdles awaiting the outsider.