Part-1: Learning from Japanese

Create self sustaining processes & mutually depended teams
Independent verification and checks by one another would sustain process. Do not try to manage the process. Allow the teams to interact, manage the results.

Be transparent & factual in communications
It is better to judge your counterpart and in many cases tell your shifts in commitments, with proper reasons. Frequent and detailed communications prove very helpful.

Create Win-Win relationship
Treat your counterpart as your partner. Make him win and feel proud. Victory beckons you!

Plan realistic and keep with the plan
Commitments with clarity are very much appreciated. Open talk, without much homework should be avoided.

Put your heart & thoughts to work for innovative solutions
Slog out! You are considered experts( as most Japanese are !). Prove yourself in early stages, but keep proving!!!

Mistakes/Bugs are to be frowned and ownership taken Critic them; not the owner
Mistakes are natural, but not to be repeated. A mistake should be owned & repented for. And in many cases make a case in point to prove you are right, if it isn’t a mistake, but a genuine misunderstanding