会社は自分のスタイルに合わせること
私が知っている日本に駐在している外国人CEOの中でも特に成功している方々は、自分のリーダーシップスタイルを会社の文化に合わせるなどということは、決してやりません。彼らは逆に企業文化の方を自分のスタイルに合わせます。これはあなたにもできることです。
大胆さを育成する方法
現在のビジネス環境に最も足りないものは、才能でも金銭でも技術能力でもありません。それは自主的な考え方と、それを行動に移す勇気です。
責任感とは備わっているものであり、与えられるものではない
A leader can never give anyone ownership of a business initiative or objective. Ownership is always taken, and to take ownership requires the will to do so. A leader can no more give someone ownership than a leader can give someone will.
CSRは贖宥状とはならない
ビジネスリーダー達が、企業の社会的責任を果たすことで、倫理的に問題があるのではないかと考えられるようなビジネスの埋め合わせをしようとするのを目にすると、不安にさせられます。
誰もあなたのことを撃とうとしているわけではない
何年も前のことになりますが、当時自分の力でソフトウェア関連のビジネスを起こそうとしている起業家と話す機会がありました。彼はベトナム戦争時にCIA捜査官として働いていたそうで、ラオスでは多国籍特別部隊と時間を共にしたと言います。
離職率を上げること
Many companies are struggling to find the qualified people they need, so they resort to retaining the people they have whether qualified or not. They fight to eliminate or at least reduce rates of attrition when it is increased attrition that can do the business the most good. Retention of the best is all that matters. Recently, the head of a large business unit of a major international company here in Japan told me that the company’s rate of attrition is of no particular concern to him, even though it is higher than industry average.
人材とは募集するものではなく、引き抜くものである
Don’t recruit. Poach. In a tight labor market, there is no percentage in tentativeness. If there is any time to go on the offense, it is now. I don’t know why recruiting firms call what they do a “search.” Who cares about a search? A search is easy, and often consists of little more than trawling through LinkedIn.
[:en]Strategy? Forget All You Know![:ja]戦略についての従来の常識を忘れること[:]
[:en] Below are seven pieces of advice I give to business leaders based on the most successful strategy practices I know. Whenever I discuss these in an open forum, there is always pushback from at least a few people, particularly in Japan. Some people are even offended! That’s OK. If I am doing my job correctly, at least some people should be made to feel uncomfortable.
自分の決める戦略
The best military strategists always choose the terrain on which they will do battle, rather than allowing the enemy to choose for them. So, in business, why would you possibly allow others to define the topography of your business environment instead of choosing the topography yourself? Yet, that is often precisely what business people do.
[:en]There is No Japanese Mindset[:ja]日本人特有の考え方などというものはない[:]
[:en]Nationality and national culture are not granular enough to explain behavior. There is no “Japanese mindset.” I have traveled to more than twenty countries, and lived outside my native United States for almost my entire adult life. I speak Japanese and French fluently, and just enough Italian, German, and Mandarin Chinese to get myself into trouble. When I put my mind to it, I can even fake Spanish—and people understand me! I have worked with and known people from all over the world. Yet, I have never known any single person who could be described as typical of the country from which they come, because it is not nationality that […]
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