Hooray! You have added the first book to your bookshelf. Check it out now!
[−]
  • Search Digit-count Valid ISBN Invalid ISBN Valid Barcode Invalid Barcode

Blue-Eyed Salaryman

From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi

By Niall Murtagh

(2)

| Paperback | 9781861977892

Like Blue-Eyed Salaryman?
Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books!

Sign up for free

Book 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"—Continue

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.

Critics

  • Where different means wrong

    I was sitting in a Japanese children’s home discussing a rock concert. The band members were all from the children’s home, the abandoned and abused offspring of yakuza — Japanese gangsters. Being Japan, even the children of yakuza prefer a certain fo ... (read full critics)

    spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

0 Review

Login or Sign Up to write a review
No reviews for this book yet

Book Details

  • Rating:
    (2)
    • 5 stars
    • 4 stars
    • 3 stars
    • 2 stars
    • 1 star
  • English Books
  • Paperback 224 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1861977891
  • ISBN-13: 9781861977892
  • Publisher: Profile Books Limited
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 1032 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
Improve data of this book

Prices Change currency & sellers

ISBN Edition List Sale Seller
9781861977892 Paperback $17.95 $15.80 bn.com
$17.95 $15.65 The Book Depository
Other editions
Added to Shelf Added to Wish List

Inline Translation Mode

Left click to navigate, right click to translate.

inline translation guide

or close

Inline translation is not ready for this page yet.

Inline translation mode.

Share this page with your friends.

The viewport has not loaded.