A management style that we can all drink to

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A management style that we can all drink to

Kazuo Inamori has become, overnight, my hero. He impressed the wannabe deal-maker in me last year, when Japan Airlines — the company which he has run for the last three years — pulled off the biggest IPO in Asia. But he has moved up close to divinity with his latest revelation: he used beer to improve employee performance.

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