The Road to Super Flat Organization #10: Business Management in Super Flat Organization
Dear readers of “The Road to Super Flat Organization.” Thank you so much for reading! Back number:The Road to Super Flat Organization #9: The Road to Non-territorial Office I found out that my friends did not press the “like” button, especially those who often tell me, “I read your blog!”...The Road to Super Flat Organization #9: The Road to Non-territorial Office
So far, I mostly talked about HR and organization. So this time, I will write about the changes in the office. Back number: The Road to Super Flat Organization #8: 360 Degree Open Evaluation From two floors office to a single floor Before we moved to our current office in Asakusabashi, ISAO (Colorkrew, at that time) office was in Yotsuya....The Road to Super Flat Organization #8: 360 Degree Open Evaluation
This time, I will talk about how we set our new evaluation system after the new coaching system. Back number: The Road to Super Flat Organization #7: the Birth of the Coaching System A problem in a general evaluation method Evaluation is a supervisor’s job. Many companies adopt this evaluation system....The Road to Super Flat Organization #7: The Birth of the Coaching System
This time, I will describe how we worked on the coaching system. The roles of a manager in the previous organization Last time, I wrote that we adopted an organization where managers are not there and replaced them with the project leaders as we decided in the management camp. Back number: The Road to Super Flat Organization #6: The Final Touch, Goodbye Departments!...The Road to Super Flat Organization #6: The Final Touch, Goodbye Departments!
To summarize the previous stories, ISAO(Currently, Colorkrew) started disclosing the information in 2012, and at the same time, gradually made the organization flat by reducing unnecessary report lines. The last article was about the moment when we were like, “Let’s get rid of all the positions and make the structure flat!...The Road to Super Flat Organization #5: The Moment Super Flat Organization Began
This series is going to continue for a little more. However, today I’ll talk about the exact moment of the dawn of Super Flat Organization. Unexpected Super Flat In the last article, “The Road to Super Flat Organization #4 : First Open or First Flat?,” I explained how we came to have the three layers: the top, department managers, and everyone....The Road to Super Flat Organization #4 : First Open or First Flat?
“With what should we start?” It is a FAQ from managers and leaders who want to install an “Open and Flat” ideology in their organizations. First, Open The conclusion is this: the importance of an “Open” culture is ten times more important than a flat organization, and it should be the first step to start....The Road to Super Flat Organization #3: Majority Vote Won't Change
Last time, I wrote about making things ready to explain why before actually making changes. The completion of Super Flat Organization needed drastic changes on the previous organization. This time, I’ll talk about how I made decisions and how I moved things forward. Why change? A company is a living thing....The Road to Super Flat Organization #2: Explaining "Why" Before the Change
In the last article, I explained that “making the company open” was crucial for Super Flat Organization. Back number: The Road to Super Flat Organization #1: Not a Goal, but a Result This time, I’ll talk about what to do before making an impactful reform and what we did in ISAO (Colorkrew at that time)....The Road to Super Flat Organization #1: Not a Goal, but a Result
The dark sides of hierarchical, closed organizations In 2010, I joined ISAO (Colorkrew at that time). ISAO at that time was a typical hierarchical, closed company. Although the company culture was a casual one as now it is, teams were hierarchical and inflexible with a tremendous information gap, and it seemed a closed company to me....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....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....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,...