Encouragement of a Spontaneous Organization: From Management to Spontaneity
In the past, I wrote about the organizations free themselves from management and running spontaneously, in many ways. In this article, I’ll explain “why management sucks and why autonomy is lovely,” as a summary. The times have changed An important premise in talking about the paradigm shift from management to autonomy is that today’s society is quite different from the 20’s century, where Japan had a brilliant development with industrialization....Just Three Ways to Increase Your Value
One’s value in a company is following his/her salary or position. This time, I’ll think about how to improve your market value. Improve individual performance #1 Basic Skills To think of individual value, the first thing that comes to mind might be skills. You should nurture those skills through a practical job; in other words, on-the-job-training (OJT) is the most important....A Performance of the Man Who Never Fails: The Story of a Big Project Completion
Hello! I’m Da-hara from the branding project. I’m delivering you the latest interview article first time in a while! This month, one big project came to its completion. The project was rewarded in the Award presentation, where the company praises successful outcomes of the previous period. We had an interview with Mr....An Organization Theory Without Managers
In Colorkrew with Super Flat Organization, there are no managerial positions. Naturally, we often receive questions such as “who makes the decision and leads the team, and how?” No managers, many leaders In Colorkrew, all business activities fall under the units of “projects.” If you’re to promote the project, you will be a Project Leader (PL) and have specific roles in the project....The More Bugs You Write, the More You Learn: An Ever-evolving Web Engineer!
Hi! I’m Kiyo from HR and Branding projects! I’m presenting the vol.6 of Let’s talk with Colorkrew engineers! This time we talked with Mr. Nishida (usually going by Nishi), the developer of the inhouse product of push notification and authentification service, “Mamoru PUSH,”and a business tool with QR codes to reduce office duties regarding personnel, resource, and money, “Mamoru Biz....A Developer, a Recruiter, and a Trainer! Multi-talented Mr. "Readable Code"
Hi! I’m Kiyo from HR and Branding projects! I’m presenting the vol.7 of let’s talk with Colorkrew engineers! This time we talked with Jan, the developer of “Mamoru Biz,” a business concierge tool dealing with QR codes to reduce office duties regarding personnel, resource, and money. He’s a web engineer who leads the team as the product development leader....Can We Enjoy Working?
Colorkrew’s vision is to “Go Inspire the World” to make the world’s work fun and expand services such as Goalous and Mamoru. Today, I’d like to bring up a question to which different generations might have variable answers: if work should be fun and enjoyable, or laborious and painful. Early Heisei period: Work was hard as its nature When I started working 27 years ago, many of the senior Salarymen told me that “work is tough and hard as its nature....The story of Daniel, Colorkrew Brazil founder!
Boa tarde！ Oops! My Portuguese came out! Hi, I’m Ai, Colorkrew’s PR manager. Today’s article is about Daniel from Brazil! Goalous debut in Brazil! He worked for Colorkrew in Japan until 2019 and now he’s in Brazil, to promote Goalous and other Colokrew’s services in Brazil In September 2020, right in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis, Goalous, an SNS-type objective management tool, has started the first service in Brazil....The Pitfalls in "Eliminating Insensitivity"
Japan as a high context culture Japanese culture is said to be a “high context culture.” The ‘context’ here refers to the cultural background, such as customs, knowledge, and values that each of us has. In a high context culture, the background has been mutual understanding, and the people there assume “you know what I mean before I tell you, don’t you?...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....