相手の立場に立つ

〜イギリス赴任日記〜

2000年9月12日


赴任から約2年と9ヶ月目の日記（後編）の続き。

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2000/09/12　「相手の立場に立つ」

I’d like to write continued from last dairy.

Since I wrote the diary yesterday, I have been thinking of my behavior for everything happened around myself. Maybe I have been having a lot of influence from circumstance and my character which is easy to take it into my mind helps to make me changed much quicker.

However I got an idea when I read the Koushi who is Chinese famous Army staff and he has his own logic for tactics and strategy. According to him, great guy should Not be self-conceit but be ambitious. Why was I angry when I was asked to follow his work which is massy organized? Because he should not give such partial job to me in such timing but human personality is not easy to change. It means I have to take some action positively for this. I should change the way of thinking. I can learn something from his weak point or defect as opposite sense and I should avoid to be like him.

In such sense what is his weak or defect point? He always is thinking that they are thinking like he is thinking with very short explanation. Nobody can understand what he is asking from his explanation and in addition to his, nobody can finish that job like he is thinking. The way to avoid this situation is to think it as they are thinking. You have to be same position as they are standing for a moment and try to understand what they will think and what they are going to do.

Usually they said that you have to know very well if you’d like to teach it with somebody. In this sense if you’d like to ask someone to do something, at first you have to understand what it is.

If I am in same position as him, what will I do?
To look at long-term business from surrounding circumstance and market movement.
To manage the member in department and establish the one large output from total outcome.
To take a balance among the members and make them work happily by arranging the circumstance.
The most important thing is to take a balance among Support, Stretch, Trust, Discipline.

What would I like to do for my career?

I’d like to see the new world. Purely as an interest. I’d like to satisfy my interest anytime. Now my interest is moving to management not individual job. Managing the human resource, managing the conflict, managing the company.

Mission is fundamental of company and it is the reason of existence of the company. Mission shall be rather common and general but noble. Strategy is the method to achieve that company mission and coming from market research and business study.

Company’s culture is created by employees. But how can I deal with such employee? What can I do to establish such circumstance as responsible person in company?


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『その当時を振り返り』

人の事をよく言わないというひどい精神状態の中で、少しずつ矛先を自分に向け、自分が何を学び、自分の行動をどのように変えて行くかを考え始めている。また、自分が相手の立場ならどうするかを考え、文章にし始めている。

さらにミッションは会社の存在理由であること、ミッションは高尚であるべきこと、戦略はその高尚なミッションを実現させるための道具であること、会社の文化は社員一人ひとりが作り出すこと、だからこそよい社風を作ることは非常に難しいことをまだ社会人5年目にも関わらずおぼろげながら分かっているようだ。

また、結局人を幸せにするということを目的とした自分のマネジメントスタイルを実践する会社を作りたいが、事業内容が定まらないというジレンマに陥り、この後十数年同じ理由で起業することを躊躇することになるのである。