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!...I Lived in Japan!
HOW DID I END UP IN JAPAN? For those who have come to Japan on vacations, this title might seem silly. So what? Well, living isn’t like taking vacations. Not at all. Especially when you talk about Japan and Brazil, two completely opposite countries (in every aspect). Let me start with how I ended up here....The Reasons Why You Should Choose ISAO If You Want to Make the World Better
How Will You Choose a Company You Work for? In Japan, hiring new graduates is still considered to be the mainstream, but career change and company change are gradually becoming popular. How did you choose the company you work for? You chose it because it’s famous, because the money is good, you like the kind of job you do, you want the skills you acquire through it, or you want to put yourself in a circumstance that will help you grow?...Mobile World Congress 2019 Report : Sales Edition
Wud-up Wud-up! You’re about to witness the long awaited blog debut of ISAO’s resident Japanese-American Party Animal Sales, JiN! I had a chance to attend Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona along with my colleagues Marti & Torii-san a couple of weeks ago so here’s what I thought about the event as well as a little taste of my experience there so check it out!...You will never be 100% ready, just start
Hi folks! My name is Martí Floriach and just a couple weeks before I got on board of the ISAO team as a full stack developer. Just reading my name you already note that I’m not a Japanese guy so I would like to dedicate my first post to describe one important thing that I learn during my short stay in Japan....Tech Talk: A Joint Exhibition with Google!
ISAO hosted a Meetup. Last October 27th (Thurs.) “Google Agents have something to say! Find out everything you need to know about Stackdriver, Docker, and Container Management!" was held at our office. Google Agents took the platform, and the event was a great success. Almost 50 individuals joined us for this event....