{"id":664,"date":"2021-11-02T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/?p=664"},"modified":"2022-11-07T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T10:26:29","slug":"mai-washida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/11\/02\/mai-washida\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Washida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">MBA 2021, Japan<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong><em>\u201cReach out to the moon, even if we can&#8217;t.&#8221; Joe Strummer\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As an assistant manager, I have been involved in many projects by acting as a bridge between travel agencies and industries, delivering what is needed to the customer. The political philosophy I learnt at my previous university taught me the importance of always keeping a harmonious spirit and a moderate point of view.<\/p>\n<p>In the long term, I want to turn the family business in building management, security and cleaning industry into a 100-year company.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of work my hobbies are winter mountaineering, playing the cello, watching classic movies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Achievements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Experience as an organiser of a festival with over 1,000 years of history<\/li>\n<li>Bringing diversity to the small Japanese building maintenance industry, a closed industry<\/li>\n<li>Reduced turnover in the workplace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What attracted you to the Kent MBA programme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an environment of high reputation and diversity, and the opportunity to learn about business in the quiet, historic city of Canterbury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kent MBA will develop my business skills. In my country, there is a high turnover rate in the building management and security industries, and very few talented people enter these sectors. I want to bring a brighter and cleaner impression to the industry itself. I want to make my family business industry one that people working in it can be proud of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Advice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Business doesn&#8217;t make people alive, people make business alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MBA 2021, Japan \u201cReach out to the moon, even if we can&#8217;t.&#8221; Joe Strummer\u00a0 As an assistant manager, I have been involved in many projects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/2021\/11\/02\/mai-washida\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74554,"featured_media":665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[249096],"tags":[249102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/thekentmbacommunity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}