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グローバリズムの光と影に焦点を当て、海外で
16年生活した Markが日本のいいところ・悪いところ、
海外のいいところ・ 悪いところを解説します。

特に政治・経済・文化に焦点を当て、今後の針路を
示唆します。

乞うご期待ください。

中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

もしあなたの部下が60億円の資産家だったら
あなたはどうしますか？

Jenさんの対応はどうだったでしょうか？

A phone call came to me about three months
later from the head of the accounting
department.

He asked whether we had hired a new person
named Frank Miller.

He complained that Frank had never cashed
his paychecks, thus causing a problem of
closing the books on the employee salary
ledger.

I went to talk to Frank about this matter.

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中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

Jenさんが面接で雇おうとした人（化学技術者）
はとてつもない金持ちだったようですが、
どんな展開になるのでしょうか？

On a lazy summer Friday afternoon in 1965,
my secretary asked me whether I wanted to
talk to a chemist who was seeking a job
with us.

It was most unusual that a professional
person would come to the door of a company
without making an interview appointment first.

I was in a jolly mood, having caught a
large king mackerel on the Pensacola
Beach pier that morning.

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中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

海外や外資企業で働いてみたいと思われる
人は必読です。

同僚との間で問題があったJenさん

どう対応したのでしょうか？


Two weeks later, someone from another
department casually told me that in my
department there was a chemist, named
Wade Sail, who was expressing strong
dislike toward me.

Although Wade was harmless, the informer
thought I should know this.

I had about 50 people in my department.

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中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

海外や外資企業で働いてみたいと思われる
人は必読です。

While Cecil was gone, I studied the
chemistry of the reaction.

Suddenly, I saw the key to the problem.

A catalyst, in a minute amount of 0.01%
of the total formulation, was always
used in our lab preparations.

From my distant memory of my organic
chemistry course, I knew that a
catalyst could easily change the course
of a reaction.

The plant records substantiated my suspicion.

Only one initial batch showed the
operator added this catalyst to the
reactor and the remaining six batches
were prepared without this important
catalyst.

At the 2 p.m. meeting, Mr. Rose
introduced me to other members of his staff.

Sales, tech service, production, accounting
and engineering heads were represented.

He then turned to me and blamed my R/D
department of introducing a new product
to our largest customer without thorough
checking and testing.

Although it was my first day on the job,
I was the head of the R/D dept. and
therefore should bear the full
responsibility to get the company out of
this jam.

I calmly approached the blackboard and
wrote the formulation of the product.

Then I went into some fancy chemistry
explanation of the expected reaction,
emphasizing the role of a catalyst,
although it was in a very tiny amount.

The copies of the plant production record
were distributed.

It was then obvious to all that the error
had been made by production department.

Someone there had arbitrarily decided
that such a small amount of an additive
could not be important and had deleted it.

I continued that although R/D Dept was
not at fault, we had already started a
project in the laboratory to retrieve
and recover the wrongly prepared material
so that our losses would be minimal.

I concluded, "You should expect to hear
our report in one week."

At the end of the meeting Mr. Rose asked
me to come to his office.

He said, “Jim, I really admired your
attitude and guts.

No R/D people before has ever dared to
speak like this.

You were able to analyze a complex problem
in just a few hours, solve it, and start
a corrective step.

I like you.

We're going to work well together."

It didn’t take long for the news of the
meeting to spread within the company.

Everyone I met was extremely complimentary
and polite.

Already, my stature was running high with
everyone in this company.

Except with one.

中国系アメリカ人のJim Jenさんの自伝です。

昔のアメリカの状況やJenさんの仕事に対する
考え方がよく分かります。

In the 1960's Coshocton, Ohio was a quiet
rural town with a population of about
eight thousand.

Its biggest industry was a General Electric
laminate producing plant.

Its other big industry was coal mining.

The nearest cities were Cleveland to the
north and Columbus to the southwest.

Summer time was delightful but winter
was long and quite boring.

Snow would fall quickly if the wind blew
from the north.

But in Coshocton the snow, even freshly
fallen, was colored black.

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中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

戦前にアメリカに留学したJenさんとその
奥さんですが、第二次世界大戦後に中国は
共産主義の国になってしまいました。

高度の科学技術のバックグラウンドのある
とみなされたJenさんは中国に帰国できなく
なり、アメリカで就職することになります。

Nopco Chemicalに就職したJenさんはどうした
のでしょうか？

Dr. Robinson began to tell me the products
Nopco manufactured.

He liked my dual major in college and
said that Nopco could well use a person
with my qualifications.

He offered me a job with monthly salary
of $300, a somewhat lower figure by $50
of the norm.

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中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

戦前にアメリカに留学したJenさんとその
奥さんですが、第二次世界大戦後に中国は
共産主義の国になってしまいました。

高度の科学技術のバックグラウンドのある
とみなされたJenさんは中国に帰国できなく
なり、アメリカで就職することになります。

さあ、これからJenさんはNopco Chemicalに
面接に行きます。どんな展開がJenさんに
待っているのでしょうか？

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中国系アメリカ人のJenさんの自伝です。

戦前にアメリカに留学したJenさんとその
奥さんですが、第二次世界大戦後に中国は
共産主義の国になってしまいました。

高度の科学技術のバックグラウンドのある
とみなされたJenさんは中国に帰国できなく
なり、アメリカで就職することになります。

さあ、これからJenさんの奮闘記が始まります。

Soon after I graduated from College of
Forestry with a master’s degree in pulp
and paper,

I faced the reality of finding a decent
paying job.

I knew my days of being secluded in a
college environment and in a protected
cloister were over.

It was February of 1951.

Syracuse, N.Y. was still in the midst of
a harsh winter with its seemingly endless
snow storms.

My fiancée was struggling with her course
work at the same college.

Her graduation was scheduled for June of
the same year.

We set our wedding date right after her
graduation, and the ceremony would take
place at the Hendrick’s Chapel on the
Syracuse University campus.

Therefore, it would be reassuring if I
could find a real job, allowing us to
start our new life together financially
secure and stable.

The job market was turbulent, with cross
currents running strong created by the
post-war economic recoveries and veterans
flooding any job openings.

Most companies had a policy of giving job
preference to war veterans, a policy that
seemed to be fair and patriotic.

However, this policy made job seeking
considerably more difficult for new
graduates like me, who came from the
opposite side of the earth.

While most alien students went back to
their mother countries after graduation,
we were the victims of a major political
change in China.

We would be risking our future by going
back to a land that no longer was the
same when we left it.

Indirect messages coming from both of our
families firmly ordered us, under no
circumstance, to go back to China.

Already Communists were showing their
ruthless and persecuting policies.

Our dream of going back to our mother
country as new and well trained pulp and
paper specialists had to be postponed.

In fact, that dream could never be realized
in both of our lifetimes.

I discussed my plight with the department
head of our College, Dr. Clarence E. Libby.

He was a kind and well known scholar, who
was proud to head a pulp and paper department,
a discipline not commonly found in the
high level academic circles.

He agreed that we should not go back to a
communist controlled country.

The United States was already facing her
postwar enemy, communist Russia.

This was the McCarthy era, anything remotely
connected with communism was poison.

He suggested that we should stay put in this
country and find a job.

He volunteered to help me by contacting many
of his past students who had risen to
managerial positions in various companies.

He also advised me to look at chemical
companies who supply pulp and paper companies
with their specialty products.

My background, both in chemistry and in
pulp and paper, ideally put me in this
category.

Shortly after my talk with Dr. Libby, he
told me that he had made an interview
appointment for me at Nopco Chemical
Company at Harrison, N.J.

I was to see Dr. A. Robinson, Research
Director, at 10 a.m. the following Monday.

I did not have the faintest idea what a
job interview was all about.

The College did have a mock session of a
job interview for graduating seniors, but
I did not attend the training session.

I thought at the time the mock session
would be useless and have no relevance
to my future.