2014年2月7日金曜日

Mr. Kitashiro's Lecture

On Monday we had our second guest speaker, Mr. Rakutaro Kitashiro. Thank you Mr. Kitashiro to giving  an inspiring lecture, and thank you to Ken for inviting him :) Listening to his lecture, I imagined how great it is to have him as a boss.

As Chisato said, I also expected that he is powerful. But he was calm and broad-minded, thoughtful... After the lecture, I was just curious and asked him when he gets angry. He answered, "About three times a year. I don't get angry. But I sometimes have to pretend to be angry if the staffs didn't try to understand customers' needs.
He also gave some good tips for leaders: Pick the best people and put them to the right position. He had a lot in common with Shackleton, because putting the best people in the right position requires the leader to pay close attention to the workers. 

Let me write some tips I received in order not to forget the lecture.

  • do your best at current job
  • don't take the easy job(in the difficult job, you can learn more and more)
  • try to do what is right for the customers
  • 3 is the magic number!
  • be capable of making decisions
  • don't forget that employees are always watching their leader
  • set the goal, how to achieve
  • don't get angry with people who delivered
  • decide what is important and not
  • be yourself!
I hope to meet him again!

1 件のコメント:

  1. Hi Sayaka,

    Thanks for these two fine posts. I appreciate the great summary of points you learned from Mr. Kitashiro, and I wish you luck with your risk taking in order to be more creative (and that TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson is one of my favorites).

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