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info@nobusato.jp (Nobu Sato) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:49:00 GMT

On March 20, 2026, two races into the new Formula 1 season, Audi announced that team principal Jonathan Wheatley was leaving with immediate effect. The stated reason was "personal reasons."

I skipped the comment sections that day. Instead I went back and found the announcement of his appointment from two years earlier. When an executive leaves in their first year, I usually start by looking at how they came in.

Why do queues get long all at once?

info@nobusato.jp (Nobu Sato) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:25:11 GMT

Anyone who has run recruiting knows the pattern. Candidates asking "any update?" don't come in evenly. They tend to arrive in the same week, usually a week when nothing obvious changed. Nobody slacked off and applications didn't double. The team got a little busier, and replies started slipping by days.

Building a Sales Agent Network in Japan | Nobu Sato

info@nobusato.jp (Nobu Sato) — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:18:42 GMT

If you sell to shops and small businesses in Japan, your own sales team cannot cover the country. You need agents. Yet once you start looking for them, progress is surprisingly slow. I have hit this wall in more than one Japan launch, and the approach I eventually settled on is simple to state: start from channels, not from lists. This piece sets it out.