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Just a few days ago on January 26, Dr. Ikujiro Nonaka, a respected management scholar, passed away. As my great senior who spent his youth at UC Berkeley alike, we affectionately called him “Ikujii/Grandpa Iku”. I am deeply sad that I was not able to meet him at last. I would like to express my deepest condolences.
Although Ikujii was a super analytical person, at the end of the day, he was the type of scholar who could say, “Kiai! Spirits!” He was the type of university scholar and practitioner who could say, “I’ve got to go for it.” I feel a strange sense of kinship with him because, although I seem to be an evidence-based supremacist with an abnormally high IQ, I actually believe almost only in “momentum” and “synchronicity” and leave the most important things entirely to my “intuition with a sense of Buddhas’ hints.
Ikujii is also famous for using the military as a source for many of his management leadership and strategy studies, and one of his most important military studies was a study of the U.S. Marine Corps, which is neither a traditional Army nor an elite Air Force, but a highly autonomous force that always smells of start-ups, and whose “reason for survival” is constantly questioned by those around it. He wrote many great books on it.
At an event last November, I spoke with Mr. Taguchi, the founder of “Borderless Japan,” a global social entrepreneurship organization, and he too repeatedly said that his final message was “Kiai (spirit)”. The key to motivate people is whether to have “kiai/spirit” at the end of the day. But that alone is of course not enough.
I don’t expect, and am not at all afraid of, “brain-muscle leadership” that tries to break through only with physical strength and muscle power without using the prefrontal cortex, which is such a treasure to humanity. It won’t last long anyway. But I greatly, greatly fear the type of spirited leadership that trains the wild alongside data analysis.
Please read on.
つい先日の1月26日、尊敬する経営学者である野中郁次郎博士が逝去されました。UC Berkeleyで青春の時間を過ごされた大先輩として、我々は「いく爺」と親しんで呼んでいました。ついに対面することは叶わず寂しい限りですが。謹んで哀悼の意を表します。
いく爺大先輩は、バリバリの分析派であるにもかかわらず、最後の最後には、「気合いじゃあ！」と言えるタイプの大学者であり実践家。私自身も、一見その異常な高IQから繰り出される エビデンス至上主義に見えつつ、実は「勢い/momentum」しかほぼ信じず、最も大事なことは「仏縁を感じる直感」に全面的に任せるため、妙な親近感を感じた 大先輩でした。
彼は、経営におけるリーダーシップと戦略研究に、軍隊を多く素材に挙げたことでも有名ですが、軍隊研究の中で最も注力したものの1つが、伝統的な陸軍でもなく、エリートな空軍でもなく、常にベンチャー臭が漂い、その「生存理由」を周囲から問われ、自律性が極めて高い、アメリカ海兵隊の研究でした。
グローバル規模で社会起業家活動を展開し活躍する「ボーダーレスジャパン」の創業者である田口さんとは、昨年11月にイベントで一緒に登壇しましたけど、彼も、最後のメッセージは「気合いです」と繰り返していました。人間を動かすカギは、結局はそこなんです。「それだけ」でもいけませんけどね。
せっかくの人類の宝である前頭前野を使わずに、体力や筋力だけで突破しようとする「脳筋リーダーシップ」には、私は期待しませんし、全く怖くない。どうせ長続きしないんでね。でも、データ分析と並行して野生を鍛えるタイプの気合の入ったリーダーシップは、大いに、大いに恐れます。
お読みください。
