Ningen Agency

HUMAN AGENCY ~The world's most interest marketing

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🎧 Where advertising meets the humanities, marketing gets a lot more human. Welcome to HUMAN AGENCY from Japan. On this show, we go beyond looking at advertising and marketing as just business techniques. We dig into them as part of culture and everyday human life. It is a slightly offbeat marketing talk show that branches out into philosophy, relationships, and even bigger life questions. New episodes every weekend📚 Sample topicsBehavioral economics for relationshipsGame theory for getting ahead in lifeThe hidden side of advertisingPersonal takes on famous marketing theories

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Ningen Agency

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Business

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Latest episode

Jul 11, 2026

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Episodes

The World’s Easiest-to-Understand Guide to Drucker 1 11.07.2026

Peter Drucker is often called the father of modern management—but what exactly made him so influential? In this two-part series, we break down his key ideas in a super simple, easy-to-follow way. Listen to these two episodes, and you’ll have more than enough Drucker knowledge to casually bring up at work.

The Illusion of Influence: Why Hard Work Isn't Enough! 04.07.2026

Stop waiting for your skills to be noticed! In this episode, we reveal the ultimate career hack: "Illusionary Assets" .We debunk the myth that "skills create opportunities". Instead, learn how to leverage the psychological "Halo Effect" to make people believe you are highly capable. By intentionally creating this illusion, you will win the "at-bats" (opportu...

What exactly is the “retro boom”? 27.06.2026

It’s kind of that feeling of, “It’s nostalgic, but somehow it feels fresh when you look at it now.” For younger people, even if they didn’t actually live through that era, the designs and overall vibe can feel new and interesting. For older generations, there’s also that sense of nostalgia, like it brings back memories. So basically, the retro boom is a mix of nostalgia, freshness, and a modern re...

Adult Friendships Take Effort 20.06.2026

Have you drifted away from your “soulmate” from school now that you’re working full-time? This episode digs into a very real adult friendship issue: getting buried in work and putting off reaching out to old friends. It’s natural for your values to shift as your work environment changes. But the friends you can still make a real effort to keep up with, like setting up regular times to meet, are th...

Marketing is a battle for share of perception. 06.06.2026

I’ll break down the classic marketing book The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing with a fully updated take using examples from modern Japan. The era when products sold simply because they had better features is over. What matters in today’s marketing is winning “mind share” in the consumer’s head. You either become the first in the market, like Coca-Cola, or become the leader of a new category, like...

Margin vs. Waste: The Hidden Architecture of Imbalance 31.05.2026

You’ve probably got a ton of apps on your phone, but how many of them do you actually use every day? Probably just a handful, right? The same thing is true in work and life: most of your results usually come from a small 20% of what you do. In this episode, we’ll reframe the Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, not just as a productivity hack, but as a way to “edit” your life. How do yo...

New 3 major desires 23.05.2026

People often say the three basic human desires are hunger, sex, and sleep. But when we take a fresh look at today’s social environment, does that categorization still make sense? In this article, I’ll explain a new take on the “three basic desires” for the modern era, based on an article that proposes a different theory.

The Strongest Process for Building Great Plans 10.05.2026

Today, we’re talking about how to optimize the planning process for business and marketing. A lot of people jump into planning without really knowing the right thought process. But before trying to invent your own method, it’s worth learning the standard approach that people before us have already built and refined. This will be a two-part episode.

Fermi Estimation Matters More Than Ever in the Age of AI 03.05.2026

In the AI era, answers come back in seconds. So why do we still need “Fermi estimation”? Fermi estimation is a reasoning technique that helps you arrive at unknown numbers using only limited information and logic. In this episode, we break down the golden 5-step process for not blindly trusting the numbers AI gives you, but instead breaking the problem into pieces and actually taking control of th...

Mastering Self-Branding 26.04.2026

Want to succeed? Skill alone isn't enough! This episode reveals the secrets of "self-branding" and the halo effect. Discover how creating an illusion of competence brings real opportunities to build actual skills. Stop waiting and start standing out today!

Art marketing strategy 18.04.2026

Back during COVID, art got pushed aside as something “non-essential” to daily life. And yet, even though its place can seem that fragile, art has kept circulating through human society and sustaining a market for thousands of years. That suggests it’s not just that people fundamentally want art. It also suggests that art itself has some kind of survival strategy—in other words, its own form of mar...

The Workplace "Thank You" Dilemma 12.04.2026

Feel awkward when thanked just for doing your job? We explore why routine workplace gratitude can feel so forced. Tune in to discover a famous creator's brilliantly cool trick for smoothly brushing off excessive praise!

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