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日本在住歴約40年のRon McFarlandと外資系勤務が長い齋藤信幸が、それぞれの海外体験を語ります。

「旅の安全」:ハイジャックそしてクラッシュ!Ronさん、九死に一生(1)- トイレにだれかいる?!

2024-01-27 22:56:29 | 旅の安全
「旅の安全」は、私のセミナーのテーマの一つで、私の経験・体験をベースにお話ししています。

しかし、ここまでの経験はありませんし、絶対に経験したくありませんね。

ハイジャック、そして飛行機がクラッシュ。

Ronさん自身の経験談です。時々、テレビ番組でも再現ビデオで報道されています。Ronさん自身の解説で。

それは、エチオピアからケニアのナイロビに向かう飛行機で起こりました・・・・・1996年11月23日・・・・・24年前のこの時期です

Chapter #13: THE CRASH – BUSINESS TRIP TO ETHIOPIA & KENYA

As usual, I scheduled this trip like any other sales training trip. Originally planned, I was scheduled to go to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and then to Nairobi, Kenya. After completing the work in Kenya, I was to travel back to Japan for the holidays.

In Ethiopia I gave training on a medium-duty truck and a light-duty truck. I gave that training and was in Ethiopia for five days. I found the people very friendly, although I saw more churches than hospitals with its extremely poor conditions.

I gave my seminar in Ethiopia and found it very enjoyable, in spite of the great poverty there at that time. Ethiopia is where coffee originally came from (Moka coffee). I also spent some time in a wildlife park there.

From Ethiopia, I was to fly to Nairobi, Kenya to introduce a new light-duty truck that I just presented in Ethiopia. GM had an assembly plant in Kenya and finally production started. The model was to be launched throughout the country. I was to train all the sales people coming into Nairobi from around the country. Well, all that changed in a hurry. Three men hijacked the flight to Nairobi. They said they had escaped from prison and wanted to travel to Australia.

Well, I never made it to Nairobi, Kenya. Here is what took place.





The sequence of the hijacking from the newspaper

I boarded the plane (Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 961) on November 23, 1996 and sat in seat number 8B. A very nice Indian lady, named Rani Nankani, from Pune, India was seated next to me in 8A. She has a home in Pune and a business with her husband in Lagos, Nigeria. She was traveling back to Lagos.

The plane took off, and we reach cruising altitude. Shortly after that, Rani wanted to go to the bathroom. So, I unbuckled my seat and let her pass. I was in the aisle seat, and she was in the window seat.

She came back to her seat, and said she never got to the bathroom, because someone was in there for a long time.

さて、何が?
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Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (9-v): Saudi Arabia

2024-01-21 14:24:25 | Ron's Life Story
Saudi Arabia

This time to Saudi Arabia I had a good chance to see Jeddah. I think it is the nicest city in the Kingdom (The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia).

< Pick up sales training in Saudi Arabia >




The way it turned out, the 1970’s was a time for me to learn basic language skills and business concepts.

The 1980’s was a time of business professionalism and expertise that I could call my own.

The Japanese language skills were coming together, and I was rewarded both professionally and privately.

The sales skills were advancing. The training skills were being refined, and the international understanding and management know-how had become first-class.

The growth in that period paved the way right into year 2000 and beyond.

I was in high gear in those years of achieving my global goals and dreams for life, and it would be just the beginning of my journey.
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Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (9-u): Business Trip - Cyprus どこ?

2024-01-14 01:38:13 | Ron's Life Story
Cyprus キプロス共和国

トルコの南、地中海に浮かぶキプロス共和国。トラックビジネスは、マーケットの裾野が広い。

In June of 1988, I traveled with a General Motors executive who spent his career in Buick.
He was very helpful in not only setting up training programs but taught me a lot about sales training.
We traveled to UAE, then to Cyprus and finally to Saudi Arabia to give training on a pickup truck.
On many occasions we role-played together having me be the salesman and him the customer.
That was a lot of fun, for both the participants and the two of us.

Cyprus was at that time a divided country with Turkey occupying the northern half of the island.
The island has a long history with England, Greece and Turkey.
I think it was caught up in the many Turk-Greek wars through history.
Today, the Greek Cypriot territory is mainly a tourist economy.

< Pick up sales role-playing in Cyprus, June 1988 >


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Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (9-t): Business Trip - Hong Kong

2024-01-08 17:12:06 | Ron's Life Story
Hong Kong

香港はいすゞにとって大きなマーケットの一つ。
Hong Kong was one of the big markets for Isuzu Motors. They had a very high commercial vehicle market share there. Also, the distributor there had a division, which sold into China. Interestingly, vehicles on the road in Hong Kong were very different than those in China. Hong Kong was right-hand drive. China was left-hand drive. Hong Kong’s emission laws were very strict. China’s were not. Now, with Hong Kong being part of China, the two should be coming closer and closer all the time hopefully for the betterment of both.


香港の営業はスキルレベルが高く、車の機能以外に教える必要はなかった。
With the stress of living in such a small place, the salesmen in Hong Kong are very professional and aggressive. There was very little I could teach them about salesmanship. I could only teach them the features of the vehicles, which was my greatest success there. Other than that, they didn’t need me.

< Heavy-duty truck training in Hong Kong, March 1988 >




現在、香港は中国の一部だが、元はイギリスの植民地。カナダ、イギリスなどへの留学や移住も多く、英語も堪能。
日本人よりもはるかにグローバルビジネススキルは高い。ビジネスの常識が通じるので、仕事はやりやすい。
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