Why You Are Stalled, Part III
Last week I wrote the second in a series posts focused on how you can overcome a stalled career. The first part was about Kaizen, or constant improvement, and last week I wrote about how you can be passionately professional. This week I will discuss how systems can lead to great ideas.
Here’s Part III.
Why is your career at a plateau? It may be the economy. It may be your supervisor. It may be your industry. But there’s also a possibility that the reasons are more complex – and entirely related to the way you think about and conduct your work. Perhaps it is this: You are all ideas and no systems.
Today it is fashionable to talk about the need for innovation – great new ideas. Great ideas are vital to success, but ideas alone will not help you advance. To move ahead, personally or an organization, you need to move your great ideas into a workable system.
At Rakuten, we have factored this into our corporate philosophy. One of our key corporate rules is this:
Hypothosize→Practice→Validate→Shikumika
That last word is critical. Translated, it means “systemize.” Your great idea is only as good as your ability to make it work – for you, for your team, and for your company.
So never stop at the idea stage. Come up with you great idea, then try it, validate it and come up with a system to execute it. It’s only when great ideas can travel along the continuum and become systems that their impact can be felt.
Data and AI | Extensive Transformation, Advisory and Program Leadership Experience | Financial Services | Seeker | [Views are Personal]
10 年Very interesting! Thanks Hiroshi.
Health Care Executive | Chief Strategy Officer | Clinically Integrated Networks | Population Health | Accountable Care Organizations
10 年3 short, easy to understNd and remember ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Principal at One8 Sports Business Consulting
10 年"Your great idea is only as good as your ability to make it work – for you, for your team, and for your company"....Is a great motto for those still looking for a 2015 mantra. Thanks for sharing.
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10 年Hiroshi-san, I am very interested to know how your company motivates your people bringing ideas forward. If ideas are really great I would expect people leaving Rakuten and making their own business, in other words making ideas work outside of your company.
Executive Architect | Application Modernization | Enterprise Architecture | Financial Transformation | Fractional CTO
10 年Some people are stalled due to the issues and solutions you mentioned. Others are simply stalled due to company culture. Many environments have an ingrained "get in line and wait your turn" model. Others still may have a stagnant business model where there is no movement of any kind. Often career stalls are less about the individual and more about the organization they are employed by.