社員を挑発せよ
ビジネスにおいて人々のマインドセットや態度に飛躍的な変化を起こしたいのであれば、彼らを挑発することが一番手っ取り早いやり方です。私がここでいう挑発とは、人々から故意に素直な感情を引き出すことです。うまくやりさえすれば、挑発することには何の問題もありません。気を付けて頂きたいのは、挑発的であることと、挑発者となることを混合しないこと。この二つはまるっきりの別物であり、決して挑発者となってはなりません。
マトリクスをマスターせよ
マトリクス組織を採用している企業のCEOの方々が、自分の権限がないことについてぼやくのをよく聞きますが、私の知っている本当に優秀なCEO達はそんな不平をこぼすことは決してありません。彼らは特有の曖昧さを持つマトリクス組織において、しっかりマトリクスをマスターし、権限を行使し、自分そしてビジネスの利益に対する影響力を持っています。あなたももしマトリクス組織を採用しているグローバル企業の日本支社のCEOで、権限が限られていると感じているのであれば、ちょっと考えてみて下さい。その権限の正しい使い方さえ知っていれば、実は自分が思っていたよりずっと大きな力や権限を持っていることがわかるかもしれません。
社員に起業家精神を持ってもらうには
私のクライアントのあるCEOの方は、社の役員達に「ビジネスにはもっと起業家のようなアプローチをして欲しい」と要望しています。このようなことは他の会社でも見られるようになりました。
「CONVERSATION WITH ロドリゴ・リマ氏（ダノンジャパン株式会社代表取締役社長）」から学んだこと
On February 6th, I was pleased to speak onstage with Danone Japan President Rodrigo Lima. Below are my takeaways from the conversation.
あなたの最大の敵は
Businesses can be their own worst enemies when business process supplants business thinking. The CEO of a large industrial American company in Japan told me of difficulties he faces in buying from a division of a large Japanese industrial company, not because of a lack of will to sell on their part, but rather unnecessary and burdensome bureaucratic processes that were designed to meet Japanese government procurement requirements, the division’s primary customer. Quality control processes at the Japanese seller company were impractical and far beyond what the American company required, while lead-times and costs were excessive. Adherence to process, no matter how inappropriate, dominated thinking.
成功をおさめる例外となれ
Exceptions are “exceptional” by definition, and always exist no matter how rare. Just because research in organizational change shows a strong correlation between certain factors of success and failure does not make these axiomatic. My most successful clients make themselves the success exception, and you can too. In my experience, I have never seen any dramatic change of any significance gain widespread cross-organizational enthusiasm before implementation, but have often seen such change succeed nonetheless despite lack of initial buy-in. So I advise that action first, buy-in later works, as long a you do things right. There is no need to delay change to seek buy-in.
優しい独裁者
Understanding the rationale for change alone when accountability is lacking is never enough. As leader, you will find yourself having to do the work of your staff in their stead. By accountability, I mean a leader ensures there are rewards for the right behaviors and good results, and penalties if there are not.
卸業者のいらない時代
We are living in a post-distributor age. Gone are the days of cajoling distributors in representing your products to customers—often poorly. The best businesses of today make it easy, comfortable, and fast for customers to buy actually what the want and how they want it. A friend of mine in Australia told me how he just bought a new Mini car completely online. He never visited a car dealership. Never test drove the car. He configured all the options online. It was delivered to his house, and he loves it.
エンゲージメントサーベイの誤った使い方
Leaders cannot engage people. People must engage themselves. All a leader can do is clear the way. Despite this, I often find overreaching conclusions from employee engagement surveys about leader’s capability that ought not be drawn, and decisions based on those conclusions that ought not be made. Engagement is either in the nature of a person or it is not. Some employees will never be engaged no matter what you say or do because the business you want is not what they want. That’s fine, but perhaps they should be in a different role or in a different company. Other employees are simply disengaged from life, not just from your […]
劇的な戦略的変革において知っておくべきこと
組織において劇的、戦略的な変革を実行すれば、それに対する懸念、反対意見や疑問を表明する社員が出てくるのは普通のことです。では、そのような状態になることを十分承知の上でその変革を導く最良の方法は何でしょうか。これは私もCEOの方々からよく受ける質問ですので、私の答えをいくつかここで紹介します。
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