num_pages: 227
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”—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.
language: English
title: The Blue-eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi
titlecomplete: The Blue-eyed Salaryman: From World Traveller to Lifer at Mitsubishi
genres: Management, Japan, Business, Autobiography, Memoir, Travel, Contemporary, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 335
publisher: Profile Books Ltd