About
Fabio Caipirinha
Born in Brazil, I grew up between Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia and France before studying conservation and museum studies in Britain.
I later spent much of the next two decades in international business, organizational change, coaching and innovation, working across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.
I research and teach leadership and organisational behaviour in Tokyo, and study philosophy at the Open University.
It does not fit together neatly. But I keep returning to a small set of questions.
What changes when an idea moves between languages? What happens when a global strategy reaches a local office? What should a leader decide rather than delegate? What remains ours when a machine can produce a fluent answer?
Some words make the problem visible. Japanese has mono no aware. Portuguese has saudade. English has no exact one-word equivalent for either. You can explain them, but explanation is not the same thing as carrying the word across intact.
That tension — between what moves and what resists movement — appears throughout the essays here.
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