You Need A Team and This is Why
I once wrote an article about my about the idea of the relationship between individuals and teams. https://blog.colorkrew.com/for-the-team_en/ In the article, I explained that better results come out from the contributions of individuals who keep growing. In a circumstance where people produce good results, there is a virtuous cycle in which the conditions will be better prepared for the greater challenges, resulting in further development in the individuals....You Don't Exist, If You Don't Speak Out
The sin of not speaking out For anyone working in a team, speaking what s/he’s thinking out is not a ‘should-do’, but a ‘must-do’. Some people make it their rule to speak out after someone started and not to be the first one. You indeed need to be brave when speaking out first, but if everyone is waiting for someone else to start, nothing on your business will proceed....Communication is important! But how?
Halli Hallo, I am a Designer! I’m Luisa, a 26-year-old UX / UI Designer with good communication skills, additionally I was born and raised in Germany, so I’m not a native English speaker. During college I studied Communication Design, which is about solving problems and expressing information that is easy to understand....Revealing the Nakamura-Style Coaching!
The Definition of Coaching Coaching is defined as an action of a coach to draw ideas and thoughts from the target person (hereafter, a coachee) by repetition of asking questions instead of direct teaching. It is true that with regard to the cases of members who are relatively less experienced, such as new graduates, coaching shall be conducted along with teaching, but this time I will focus on coaching....Change or Die: Encouraging Challenges and Welcoming Failures
Easier Said Than Done With regard to one of ISAO Spirits, “Challenge What’s New Out There”, I think it is easier said than done. If you think “Making challenges is easy,” then you are too much talented, or you underestimate it too much. Why Making Challenges is Hard Then, let’s think about why making challenges is challenging....One Simple Secret in Making Good Reviews
Importance in Giving/Receiving Reviews ISAO’s Super Flat management, which puts value in openness and fairness, promotes empowerment in individuals and each has responsibility to make decisions of what they do. This is because ISAO believes it important to shorten the decision-making process in order to accelerate the business. Because the person in charge make decisions and proceed the work quickly, it is quite important for the people around to give feedback from an objective perspective that the person didn’t have....The Leadership in ISAO
Everyone Should Show Leadership at ISAO ISAO’s key concept in organization management is “Super Flat.” Every kind of information is open and shared to the utmost level. There’s no hierarchy, boss, or department. Since there’s no boss, there’s no managers. Although there’s no manager, every member of ISAO is a “leader” and expected to show certain “leadership....Creating Strong Company Culture: How to Let Ideas and Values Penetrate in Your Company
By letting ideas and values penetrate, companies can create strong culture of their own. This time, I will write about “how to let ideas and values penetrate.” “Values” Important in Making Daily Judgments For a company to grow, its work must be evolved and renewed. In the evolving process, you do not have precedents and therefore, you will have to make your own decisions for each situation....Against Vertical Structures That Destruct Your Company: A New Organization Theory for the Century
How Should We Build Up an Organization? “How should I improve our organization which doesn’t seem working well?” It is a question that troubles many managers and leaders. How about installing a “Teal Organization” structure that gets rid of hierarchical relationships and management? It seems to be on trend; although it seems very far from our current organization...."For-the-Team" Spirit: An Ideal Relationship Between Individuals and Teams
In ISAO, which has Super Flat Organization, individual growth and career development are considered to be greatly important. On the other hand, since there’s no department, individual achievement might be taken all that matters; however, teamwork is crucially important to make good results in business. So this time, I’m going to talk about the relationship between individuals and teams....To Continue Growing is a Bit Tough Challenge
Environment to Grow: The Value for the ISAO Employee We choose a company to work as a whole set of factors: These are such as if it lets you do what you want to, if the pay is good, if the people around are nice, if you can take enough, desirable off-days,...ISAO-Style Coaching
ISAO’s Coaching System In ISAO, which is Super Flat, we have a “Coaching System.” Since October 2015, when ISAO shifted from the traditional hierarchical organization to Super Flat Organization, there is no boss in the company. In a typical company, a boss takes the roles of a supervisor and an adviser regarding individual career design, but ISAO does not have bosses anymore....Let’s Throw it Away: Authoritarianism Every Organization May Fall Into
What is authoritarianism and anti-authoritarian? Hi, this is Keiji Nakamura, the CEO of ISAO corp. I know this is sudden, but I am an ‘Anti-Authoritarian’. I, speaking from my experience of working in various organizations, personally believe authoritarian is not the right concept in work and am trying to create and work in teams without it....How Much Do They Get Paid? This is Why Everyone Should Know That
Making information transparent in an organization will stimulate individual growth and team performance. Why is transparency important, and how can we achieve that? I will show you a thoroughly opened management method for those who seriously want to change his/her organization and their employees to grow. All the Salary Information is Accessible in ISAO!...