Day 1,596: green shoots, versed

For Japan to make good on the promise of the moment, policymakers, executives and politicians must do more to nurture the green shoots of dynamism.

Japanese firms are now well versed in the forms of good governance, but they need to get better at the substance.

Will Japan rediscover its dynamism?

Artwork of the day 
Woman of substance
Octavio Ocampo
Style: Surrealism
Genre: portrait

Word of the day 
green shoots: (used especially in newspapers) the first signs of an improvement in an economy that is performing badly
versed: to know a lot about a particular subject or be experienced in a particular skill

Quote of the day
“To this generation I would say:

Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”

― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology