Mogic considers

Ichiju Hyakkei, Renewed Bulletin

I picked up two in the four-character phrase series.

First, we will start with Ichiju Hyakkari, originally from

"The plan of a year is not like the plan of a grain tree. The plan for a lifetime is not as if a man were a tree. A tree that produces one crop is a grain. One tree with ten crops is a tree. A tree that produces a hundred crops is a man.

The sentence, "It is important to nurture people in the long run, not just for immediate profit," can be translated as "It is important to nurture people in the long run, not just for immediate profit.

Then, I don't know the origin of the new era, but when I pulled up a dictionary, I found an example of the Japanese origin of Kotaro Takamura and beauty, with Prince Shotoku.

"The national policy was settled, the national fortunes grew, and a new era of culture was heralded."

The sentence "The old is over, and a whole new year is beginning.

My intuition is that the reason I picked up on these two, though abruptly, is that they are appropriate to show the current foothold.

In other words, I think we need to change our sense of how we perceive the times at this time in a big way.

As one example, if you look at Japan's demographics, we are talking about the largest-ever decline of 840,000 people in 2023.

The decline consisted of 758,631 births and 1,590,503 deaths.

The fact that in just one year the city has lost its ordinance-designated city level population.

If this were to accumulate every year, a simple calculation shows a decrease of 8.4 million people in 10 years.

What does a future with 8.4 million fewer people look like?

From the past perspective, it will be seen as "an era in which everything is unimpeded and something is always missing," and from the perspective of 10 years from now, I wonder if it will be "an era in which we create different value from what we have at hand.

If we are to promote this idea, it is important to go back to the beginning.

To use a company analogy, think about how you can grow together with the people who come for interviews rather than lamenting that you can't hire good people.

If you are pessimistic about the lack of manpower, think about systemizing, structuring, and discarding in order to take care of the people you have.

Above all, I would like to think carefully about how to create an organization that questions the conventional wisdom and creates new value.

A place that is hard to talk about.

I have always felt that there is a certain vagueness in the way we talk about companies, business, and work.

I wondered what is the hardest part of the story to tell.

However, hints of this can be found in unexpected places.

Let me quote a passage from a medical book that rang a bell.

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Bodies Living in More Than One World: Anthropology of the Han Clinic
Tae Woo Kim (Author), Hitomi Sakai (Translator)
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I go to work in my body, eat, watch movies, and go to cafes.

It also lives with a body that is separate from itself.

Bodies communicate emotions with each other through facial expressions and conversations.

One knows such a body.

He knows the sensations that the body conveys and he knows the pain.

The system formed by this bundling of knowledge about pain is medicine.

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No medical treatment can fully explain every condition of the body.

This is not so much a question of the limits of a certain medical treatment, but rather of the existence of the body, which has many different backgrounds and aspects.

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Thus, medicine is more than a system of knowledge and action for health.

Healthcare is essentially a system of "regulations.

Medicine defines what constitutes disease and what constitutes health, and at its core is a prescription for the body.

Medical care, which shows what the most basic assumption of the human body is, is also the very definition of what it means to be human.

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An examination of the definite targets of Western medicine's attention reveals the consistent perspective that Western medicine has on the body.

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The subject is an "independent entity.

Hence, a separation is possible between it and other things.

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Rather than emphasizing a "fixed" or "independent subject," East Asian medicine is deeply concerned with "flow" and "situation."

There is a well-known saying in Korean medicine, "Tongli-ru non-pain 不痛則痛.

It means that if the street is good, there is no pain; if it is bad, there is pain.

If the flow is smooth, there is no disease.

It's a comfortable body, not painful.

However, if the flow is poor, health begins to waver and approaches disease.

It can be said that the diagnosis in Korean medicine is a consideration of a situation of poor flow.
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In addition to the familiar Western medicine, there are diverse views of medicine in the world, which are "prescribed" in their own way.

If so, it is not surprising that companies and businesses have a similar "number of regulations" with a wide variety of interpretations and actions.

Some regulations treat the people and clients who work with them as independent figures, while others look at the flow and stagnation as a whole.

Perhaps the difficulty of telling the story is the difficulty of trying to communicate across different regulations.

Of course, we are free to stand on any kind of rule, and we systematize our knowledge and actions as we like, as we feel comfortable with.

Then you realize that 20 or 30 years have passed, and that's good.

Finally, I'll borrow a bit from the previous quote and rewrite it.

"The social activity (work) accomplished by the body, the most basic assumption of the human being, is also the very definition of what it means to be human."

Its name is the "Aggressor's Club".

Market Direction, Basic Education, Innovation & Production.

There are many unfamiliar department names at Mogic.

This is not a play on names, it's just what happened when we tried to match the entity.

The director function alone was not enough to develop our own services, so we added a marketing element and created the Market Direction Division. The Basic Education Division was created because it is better to look beyond the organization for the basic skills, such as team communication and individual personalities.

This is an unprecedented experiment, so not everything will go well.

Some departments were rather controversial.

One of them is the "Aggressor Department," which is exactly what it sounds like: a name for a body.

It may seem like a story, but it really did exist.

The interns and planners will take the lead as the unit that will now actively and boldly lobby the company.

Just around that time (around 10 years ago), we were becoming more organized, so let's stop the divisions from becoming a taco-bowl! Let's break down the barriers between departments! We had to break down the barriers between divisions!

True to such a mission, he often visited other departments and stirred up the place.

They open the door in the middle of a meeting and say, "Let's ask for help! and suddenly blurts out a presentation that resembles a challenge.

The enigmatic mounting phrase begins, "Listen up, boys."

That's not surprising, but everyone is stunned and amazed.

I am still wondering if there is a different way to do it, but it is a good experience, because it sometimes appears as a funny story.

A world that doesn't tell you the rules.

Live by capitalism.

In Japan, it sounds as natural as breathing.

If so, if someone were to ask you, "Please tell me the rules of capitalism and how it works," I doubt you would be able to answer easily.

I am not so confident that I can sigh for a long time.

Playing soccer, let's use an analogy.

One ball, don't use your hands, carry the ball with your feet or head, one goal for the enemy, formation like this, and so on.

It is doubtful that I can explain it well.

Even if you have been playing soccer for 10 years, whether you can win competitive tournaments is another matter.

In other words, even games with straightforward rules are difficult to explain and work through successfully.

If this is the case, how will we fare in the world of capitalism, a world where no one tells us the rules?

Non-attendance, internal examinations, examinations, gakuchika, job hunting, job satisfaction, work history, meeting people, investments, workplace, commuting, family, insurance, place, title, job change, health, entrepreneurship, caregiving, pensions.

I receive various consultations every month and week, but I don't feel that the problem derives from that (difficulty in grasping the rules of capitalism) at the end of the day.

Create a system without ceasing

At Mogic, we are constantly creating various systems throughout the year.

Recently, an intern who comes to work on Fridays has been leading a sweets scratch-off raffle project.

Why are you making such a thing? You may ask, but the distribution of imported sweets is a big deal within the company.

Don't just hand out the sweets as they arrive. You have to take the time to distribute them in a way that is funny, fair, and convincing. And we want to make the operation easy."

The students are working on such an impossible proposition, squeezing their brains together.

Five students meeting each other for the first time, from engineers to sales people from different departments, how to organize their opinions, how to appeal in their presentations, and how to interpret the feedback they received.

We were to develop the concept and implementation in the first two sessions, and then build it up to release in the remaining four visits to the office.

There are those who are anxious, those who are sure they can handle it, and those who are just doing the best they can in front of their eyes.

If we can trust each other, even if we stagger on the footholds that crumble one after another, we will surely be able to create something memorable.

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Be trustworthy.

How to treat children from the youngest kindergarten class to middle school age.

I feel that the use of the word "nowadays" makes it even more difficult to deal with children, but I found a book that is very easy to understand (out of respect for the author, I will deviate from the original citation grammar), so I will quote it at some length.

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The Adult Who Hates Children
By Zhu Mo Note (Author)
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Some adults want to mount against children.

I think this is because the leaders and teachers want to take the initiative in subsequent instruction and classes.

But for some people, it is counterproductive.

Children will listen to those they trust without having to be mounted.

I also like people who are fun and friendly.

However, I am not interested in people telling old saga stories or bragging about how their students are such famous people.

The same thing can be said in conversations between men and women. Some people may think that "bragging about how great you are" and "stories about how bad you used to be" are great as long as they are told to the opposite sex, whom they think they like, but in general, those who listen to them are tired.

A slightly violent story, especially from the Showa or early Heisei period, should be disliked not only by the child but also by the parents who heard the story from the child.

If something goes wrong, you may be the first to be suspected, saying, "That teacher (instructor) used to talk about this kind of thing.

The attitude of "you're not ready yet" without praising a child who has learned to do a few things is also not good.

There is also a way to praise them if they do even a little and let them get better and better at it.

It would be difficult to talk negatively there and take it in the direction of artisanal thinking that would make them want to be "recognized" unless it is a "special group" or other group of specially gifted children, etc.

Because if the class gets to that level, it is likely to be a group of kids who are competitive and goal-oriented.

Be aware that unnecessary adult awareness at the beginning of that competition, instrument, or study can reduce children's interest and, in some cases, cause them to rebel.
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The more I read, the more I think that it is not only the same for today's children, but also for today's corporate management.

If you try to elicit the conditioned reflex of "wanting to be recognized" by using the unattainability of grandiose goals, they will immediately see through your artifice and say, "Oh, really? They don't want to hear about the sagas and boasts of 5 or 10 years ago, which are not realistic for them.

No matter what time of year, no matter what position or form you are in, no matter what time frame you are feeling or reacting to, at the end of the day, you must be a person who can be trusted.

I believe that is universally true.

To pick and choose or not to pick and choose

Today, when everything is offered as a service, "picking and choosing" has become a very common act.

It is so obvious that one might ask what I am talking about.

I'll give you a few.

Find and select a private school that looks good for your child.

Find and pick and choose the services that will help you with your household chores.

Find and pick and choose images online for your enjoyment.

Find and select an MBA school to advance your career.

Find and pick and choose support services for distant parents.

Find and select the services you want to operate for your own retirement.

There are many others.

What these actions have in common is that they are "listing and comparing".

Digging a little deeper, I think it is based on a style of thinking that tries to reach the goal in the shortest possible distance.

This is natural since there is much to do and time is limited.

However, what should we do if we eventually become tired of "picking and choosing" from too many choices every day?

I can think of two extreme directions.

One would eliminate even the process of choosing = listing and comparing.

In short, promote "recommendations," "templates," and "routines.

The other is the opposite of picking and choosing: not picking and choosing.

Since we will not be using outside services (i.e., there will be no third-party assistance), we will have to do it ourselves anyway, which will take time and effort, but we have no choice.

Even so, it is not all bad.

If I do it by myself, there is only so much I can do, and I can rethink whether I was being a bit greedy and narrow down what I should be doing.

You should paint a picture that looks like it.

When I redecorated one of the rooms in my office, I could see a large, black wall.

Since the interior work was done a long time ago, the marks where things have bumped into each other and rubbed against each other are inevitably noticeable.

Just as I was about to repaint it in black or white, a passage from a book I read the other day came back to me.

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Adventures in the Underground World
Will Hunt (Author), Shiyuki Tanahashi (Translator)
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Fourteen thousand years ago, we were on the path followed by the last Madeleans to enter this cave.

The Madeleine culture, which lasted from 17,000 to 12,000 years ago, is a prominent feature of European prehistory.

Prior to this, the Solutrean (22,000 to 17,000 years ago) and Gravettian (32,000 to 22,000 years ago) cultural periods also had their own periods of brilliance.

They made elegant stone vessels, sculpted beautiful small, portable statues such as the Goddess of Willendorf with her buttocks accentuated, and painted breathtaking murals of animals in the famous "Chauvet Cave".

But the Madeleines were master craftsmen.

You could call it the Florentine Renaissance of the Paleolithic period.

The reindeer and bison they depicted in "Lascaux" and "Altamira" were so exquisite that they could not be considered ancient artifacts, and early archaeologists even declared them to be fabrications.
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It is not enough to just reapply a coat of paint just because it is dirty.

The walls we see all the time are where we express our style, so we should paint a picture that is typical of us.

Yes, the 15th anniversary of the founding of the company, if you want to dabble in this.

So we decided to paint a mural in our office.