Labor Shortage is Never a Problem 労働力が不足していてもビジネスを成長させる方法
There are two ways to grow your business. You can do the same thing, only more of it. Or you can increase the value of what you do. At the time that I write this, Japan has an unemployment rate of less than three percent, so the latter is, for many businesses, the best viable option.
[:en]Unconscious Hypocrisy[:ja]悪例となる態度を無意識に示してはいないか[:]
[:en]Most hypocrisy is committed unconsciously, and only with the best intentions by otherwise intelligent and capable leaders. A leader creates a corporate culture through his or her behavior, whether consciously or not. That is why unconscious hypocrisy can be such an insidious problem to resolve for those in leadership.
[:en]The Three Freedoms of Engagement[:ja]取り組みを促す３つの自由[:]
[:en]I don’t need to rely on the stock recommendations from prepackaged employee engagement surveys to gauge and improve a staff’s emotional commitment to the business, and neither do you. All I need to do is to gauge the degree of the three freedoms of employee engagement listed below, and that will tell me what I need to know.
[:en]Be Unfair and Play Favorites[:ja]公平であることなど忘れ、えこひいきすること[:]
[:en]Fairness is not about equity of treatment. It is about equity of opportunity to exercise one’s talents. You can play favorites and there is nothing wrong with doing so, as long as it is the excellent that you favor.
[:en]Conversation with Visa Japan Country Manager Seiji Yasubuchi[:ja]ビザ・ジャパンのカントリーマネージャー、安渕聖司氏から学んだこと[:]
[:en]On April 3rd, I conducted an onstage conversation with Visa Japan Country Manager, Seiji Yasubuchi, at the Tokyo American Club for the American and French Chambers of Commerce in Japan. We had a full house! Here are my takeaways from my discussion with Seiji.
[:en]Growth is a State of Mind, Not a Market[:ja]企業の成長とは市場の状況ではなく、気持ちの持ち方によりもたらされるものである[:]
[:en]Return on investment of overseas acquisitions made by Japanese companies, with some exceptions, is feeble by large and at times disastrous.
[:en]The World is Given, But The Frame is Yours[:ja]この世界をどう切り取るかは、あなた次第[:]
[:en]The world is given, but in photography, you frame the world as you want it. The photograph is your own. The leader of a business does much the same. You take the world as you want it. The frame is of your own choosing.
[:en]Who’s Eating Your Lunch?[:ja]この瞬間にもシェアを奪い取られてはいないか[:]
[:en] I can often sell my clients’ businesses better than they can sell themselves. Some have little sense of the magnitude of strategic value they are capable of providing their customers, whereas others have sales staff who rarely communicate such value, much less understand it. As a result, they undercharge their customers or otherwise find themselves merely pushing product to low-level buyers.
Eschew the Putative Best People 「最高の人材」など存在しない
Your company should not have mass appeal as a great place to work, if it is exceptional people you want to attract.
[:en]Ignore The Competition[:ja]競争相手は無視すること[:]
[:en]Focusing on what the competition is doing in considering your own strategy tacitly enables your competitors to force you to compete on their terms. For breakthrough strategy, forget about the competition.
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