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Leading High Performing Remote Teams
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Design Thinking
Learn the 5 phases of this problem-solving methodology and switch from technology-centered to user-centered thinking.
Gantt Chart
Invented in the early 20th century, the Gantt Chart is one of the building blocks of modern project management. In this online course, you'll learn how this tool can be used effectively to monitor progress and achieve your team's goals.
Navigating Change Successfully
The working landscape is continually shifting and being disrupted, so how to employees maintain a sense of stability? Listen to CEO and president of Carl ZEISS Japan Stefan Sacre share his expertise on dealing with change in organizations and entire industries.
Halo Effect
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Anchoring and Framing
Want to increase your confidence during negotiations? Master the principles of anchoring and framing to take your negotiation skills to the next level.
ZOPA and BATNA
Understanding ZOPA and BATNA will help you become a better negotiator, create more value, and feel more confident at the table.
Content Marketing
In this course, you’ll learn how compelling blogs, videos, podcasts, and other media can reach customers and drive sales. You’ll also learn steps for creating an effective content marketing plan, and some important ways to measure its impact and success.
Content marketing is a essential digital marketing strategy for companies looking to provide relevant and useful information to support your community and attract new customers.
Get started on your content marketing journey today.
Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society
There are opportunities for progress all around us. The key is to innovate on these opportunities sustainably.
To help identify most effective path forward, you'll need to gain a global perspective to these challenges in an open discussion. How can Japan and the world take action to create a more sustainable, innovative world? Where do you fit in?
It's time to find out.
Social Media & Digital Communications: Impact on Global Public Opinion
Social and digital media have dominated the communications industry for decades. But it's no secret that social media has the power to sway public opinion, and the way in which many companies use these platforms could be seen as manipulative.
What do companies need to be aware of when utilizing social and digital media? How can these mediums be used to better communicate strategically with the world?
Discover what top media and communications experts have to say.
Blockchain
Blockchain is one of the most captivating technologies out there. Learn what it is and how to make use of its opportunities in this short online course.
Mehrabian’s Rule
The 7-38-55 Rule, developed by Albert Mehrabian, suggests that effective communication relies less on the words we choose than on our tone of our voice, appearance, and body language. Learn how to put this theory to use for better communication in business.
Pareto Principle
Your time and resources are limited. Efficiency means learning to prioritize. The Pareto principle (also called the 80-20 rule) can help you identify the best way to use your time for maximum results.
Country Analysis Framework
Overseas expansion requires careful planning. The Country Analysis Framework can help you look beyond an industry-level analysis and reframe your view based on performance, strategy, and context. Try this short course to learn how it works.
SECI Model
The SECI model illustrates how knowledge is created and shared. Learn how to put it to use for best practices, and how the Japanese concept of “ba” fits in to broaden your perspective.
Johari Window Model
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Sunk Costs
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CAGE Distance Framework
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Groupthink
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Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
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Critical Thinking: Hypothesis-Driven Thinking
Anyone can come up with a good idea. The real challenge is putting that idea into action. In this online course, explore how to form compelling, testable hypotheses and bring ideas to life in your own organization.
Critical Thinking: Structured Reasoning
Even a few simple techniques for logical decision making and persuasion can vastly improve your skills as a leader. Explore how critical thinking can help you evaluate complex business problems, reduce bias, and devise effective solutions.
Critical Thinking: Problem-Solving
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How to Dream
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Logical Thinking
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Servant Leadership
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Organizational Behavior and Leadership
Ever wonder what makes a great leader? Whether your role requires leadership or not, understanding organizational behavior is useful for your career. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can set you on your way.
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Strategy: Creating Value Inside Your Company
Have you ever wondered why certain companies are more successful than others? The answer is strategy: internal processes that control costs, allocate resources, and create value. This course from GLOBIS Unlimited can give you the tools you need for that strategic edge.
Strategy: Understanding the External Environment
To plan strategy on any level, you need to understand your company's external environment. In fact, your level of understanding can impact hiring, budgeting, marketing, or nearly any other part of the business world. Want to learn how to do all that? This course from GLOBIS Unlimited is the perfect first step!
Using Japanese Values to Thrive in Global Business
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Turnaround Leadership: The Differences Between Japan and the West
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Conflict Management
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Evernote Founder: How Tech Startups Can Break through in Japan
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Marketing Mix
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The Principles of Negotiation
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Negotiation: Creating Value
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Finding Your Life Purpose with Ikigai
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Confirmation Bias
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Leadership with Passion through Kokorozashi
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In an era marked by rapid technological advancements and complex societal challenges, the concept of systems thinking has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding and addressing the intricate web of interconnections that define our world. Peter Senge, a renowned systems scientist, author of “The Fifth Discipline,” and senior lecturer at MIT, has dedicated his career to exploring the depths of this approach.
The professor shared his insights on building shared vision, fostering creative tension, and adapting strategies for optimal results at a GLOBIS USA kokorozashi seminar.
Below is a partial transcript of the seminar, edited for clarity.
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Finding Your Kokorozashi
Peter Senge: When I started to ponder the term kokorozashi, it struck me that it was something that was very present for me from a very early age. And what I mean by this is that it seemed to me, and by the time I finished my college and graduate school, I was more of a teacher and mentored others, and I would work with young people and I’d say, well, don’t worry about whether you’re going to be a mechanical engineer or aeronautics engineer or you’re going to be an economist. There are only two things that matter. What are you really passionate about and what difference do you want to make in the world?
It always seemed to me that that was really all that mattered. It’s a shame. It’s a tragedy for someone to spend their life doing something that isn’t really them. It isn’t really their life, their work. What really matters to them, what gives them energy doesn’t mean it’s easy, of course. Doing what you’re passionate about can often be very difficult, but you do it because you love it because it’s what you really care about and what’s going to make a difference in the world. And so I think that’s actually kokorozashi, you know, that our kind of life mission or our, you might say, a life well lived always arises at this intersection between what really matters deeply to me and what can really be useful to the world. So it’s very easy for me to relate to that idea, and it’s very nice to know that that’s really a core principle for GLOBIS.
Investigating Organizational Behavior
Senge: What I really want to do is something I think is important, which is to help human beings understand the systems they create. So we say a few words about the work we’ve been involved with for a long time, because in many ways, telling the story of LA is a very good introduction.
As a kid growing up in Los Angeles, when you lived through Paradise, destroyed in ten years, you know, in the life from the age of five to the age when you go to college, you see the extraordinary change, and I would defy you to find anybody. Who you could put down in Los Angeles in 1955 and then 1965, just ten years. And say 1965 is better. I think very few people would say that. Because the natural beauty was incredible and you had everything you kind of needed to get around in 1955.
So. This is a real puzzle, and to me, it’s, in a way, the puzzle of our age and the puzzle that’s been the motivation for me my whole life. How is it? That really smart, diligent people working very hard can consistently produce outcomes that nobody wants.
It’s really hard to find a human being anywhere in favor of climate destabilization. We’ll all see the effects all around the world. The extraordinary suffering when probably the beginning of what will be much worse from the destabilization of our global climate the typhoons, the floods, the droughts, the extraordinary migrations of people all around the world because they were places they grew up and their families had been for many, many generations, no longer are viable places to live.
The political instability that arises from this. And it’s not an accident. It’s not bad luck. It’s a consequence of our own coordinated efforts. By very intelligent, dedicated people. Climate change is not created by the uneducated. It’s not created by the poor. It’s not created by the people outside of power. It’s created by us as embodiments or living members of the heart of modern industrial society.
So this question, how do we work together so often? With such intelligence, so to speak, we’re so smart, and yet we’re so stupid. We produce outcomes that nobody wants. That’s the simplest way to characterize the field of systems or complexity.
We somehow have grown very rapidly in numbers, in economy, in environmental impact. And you might say in our technical knowledge. And yet we’re not actually very smart. If you simply define real intelligence as the ability to consistently produce outcomes that you really want to produce.
So that’s always been the puzzle in our work. In a nutshell, rather than thinking about it intellectually or writing a theory, papers about what’s wrong with organizations up in coming from that MIT tradition, naturally my interest was how do you do it differently?
Not how do you just talk about it? How do you not just analyze it? How could you actually create a school that kids would want to be at? How could you actually create a business that people would want to work and would like their children to work at, and are really proud of what they accomplish? How would we go about creating a society that was really fair, equitable, and really gave opportunities to people and where you could walk down the street and trust the people you were walking down the street with?
So you can take any domain. And so that became the learning challenge in the very simplest sense. How do we develop capacity to produce more and more of the sorts of outcomes we really want to rate?
Creating Compassionate Systems
Senge: Compassion is a funny word in English. Um, it usually is used almost as a synonym for sympathy. Like “you should have some compassion for this person.” It’s actually not what it means at all. It comes from the Latin root com- + pati. Being with the suffering of another, just being able to experience it, to appreciate it, not to necessarily fix it.
But obviously, if you really feel for the suffering or difficulties of another, you’re really interested in why and what could be done differently, particularly where the systems part comes in. What is it about the systems we create that create the suffering, not just how do we help somebody individually?
So that became a network. And that’s been the focus for the last ten years, uh, today and uh, statewide in the state of California. People do work with compassionate systems both within school and out of school. The focus is always on kids, but a lot of the most important learning opportunities in the modern world are not just in school. There are community-based organizations, organizations that work with kids at risk in different communities.
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