『リスク』、『自分自身に正直でいること』

〜イギリス赴任日記〜

2001年1月2日


新年二日目の日記。正月にも関わらず頭の中は仕事のことでいっぱいのようだ。

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2001/01/02　「『リスク』、『自分自身に正直でいること』」

Two things I learned.

One is how we can measure the risk.

When you think about the risk, there must be some benefit you may be grabbed or some loss you will be suffered. But there is the big difference between how big you feel that loss is and how big richer feel that loss is. The thing is there is the big difference scales of the risk you think and richer think because the ratio of the loss against big amount of fortune and small amount of fortune is completely difference. This says risk taker who is richer than other and not feel it’s a lot of money will not be given more impact than risk taker who is less richer. This can tell you not only the statistics background information but also their feeling for that risk(Amount of money bet on risk.) are giving the impact to make decision to take a risk.

Now from this point of view we can evaluate the difference of thought of the risk on network business expansion in Europe. This company is willing to expand the network to make our network more attractive for our customer and try to invest to our network expansion but we have not been given any budget so far and even not given the overall strategy for global business. This means we feel more fear to spend the money than Hq. feels because we can see how much hq's total budget for Global business are. On the other hand Hq knows that but they also know European business is not so important for them at the moment. That is the simple reason they are not willing to spend the money.

Now to break through this situation what we have to do at first is to disclose how European business is important for Arcstar global business. I don’t know the answer but if it’s mot so important, we shall leave right now or minimize the business. Of course there is opposite idea that it’s very important. In such case, you shall be given the appropriate budget corresponding with that importance. Then now we can measure the scale of the risk we are facing and be able to understand whether it’s possible to take that risk or not by examining the case from statistics and scale of the intention for taking the risk.

Second is to make yourself honest is very hard.

There are a lot of negotiation and irresistible thing in real world and sometimes you are just convinced by some magic words you don’t even really understand. Because there are human egos surrounding us and usually un-known means weak and you are irresistibly required to accept the thing you may not agree. How can you avoid this? It’s hard to do that. You have to ignore your egos and desire for human basic desire like money. Unfortunately and usually the truth is over this kind of hurdles. There are guys having the money and smart enough to make you understand and trick you. However don’t give up. I don’t give up. You have to believe your faith and belief even if you lose your partner, property and everything. Keep on believing the truth and right thing. You may lose your way but it’s ok because people must lose their way. The important thing is even if you lose your way, you have to realize you lost your way and correct it and start believing your faith and belief again.

This is what I am trying to do everyday.

Just believe yourself.


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『その当時を振り返り』

　「リスクの大きさを定量的に測定し、その大きさに則した投資を行う」、「自分自身に正直でいることの難しさ」について自分の考えを書いている。

　リスクについての話は、本社のグローバル戦略が明確でなく、そのため現地法人がなかなか成長しないことへのいらだちから来ているだろう。

　自分自身に正直であることの難しさは、組織の中で正しいことを貫くことの難しさを日々感じていたことから来ているだろう。

　「自分を信じること」。今でもその気持ちを忘れていない。