Thoughts on Management

This is a collection of my columns, Keiei hitorigoto ("Thoughts on Management"),
a regular feature I wrote for Obun Printing's Web page. The columns describe my thoughts and enthusiasm about business, which I wanted to relate to my employees, whom I feel are my close counterparts.

Keiei hitorigoto was originally called Ryu-munication. This is a word I created by combining my first name, Ryushi, with "communication," a sort of pun meaning "Ryushi's communication." Through this Ryu-munication column, I began communicating with people working in Obun. Actually, it started as the prefatory remarks for our in-house magazines.

After a period of time, however, printing of this in-house magazine was ceased, despite the fact that we are a printing company. Instead, a space was made available for me on our website. Naturally, the themes and topics I picked up changed from what I used to choose for the in-house magazine, which was meant only for Obun's internal communications.

Regardless of the scale of a business, as a message from the CEO open to the public, I must make it something meaningful. Otherwise, despite their excellent work, the company's employees will be viewed with the thought, "Is that the kind of company you work for?" Therefore, I tried to think reflectively and build sentences in diverse ways to avoid embarrassing my employees.

With the course of time, people gain experience, and are changed through them. I will continue to write these essays to enjoy the changes and convey my thoughts to people.

2010 »	A Violet Ocean Strategy	January
	Weekly Messages	February
	Theory, Know-how, Skill	March
	Morning Meeting at the Start of 2010	April

2009 »	New Year's Day 2009	January
	Going Concern: My Management Policy Ver. 2.0 (How I Manage.)
	Fitful Behavior	February
	Work and Play	March
	Morning Meeting at the Start of Fiscal 2009	April
	Confirmation of Growth	May
	It's Too Late Now	June
	The Greatest Form of Equality	July
	Exhibition Report	August
	The Fusion of Logicality and Illogicality	September
	Enjoyable Work	October
	A Good Corporate Culture	November
	A recent discovery	December

2008 »	New Year's 2008, the Obun Brand	January
	Conversation and Chitchat	February
	Considerate Communication	March
	The Start of the 62nd Business Year	April
	The 100th Installment	May
	Priceless	June
	PDCA plus Enthusiasm	July
	Extraordinary People	August
	Ascending into the First Division	September
	Seeing the Invisible	October
	Erasable Paper on TV	November
	Development Rush	December

2007 »	New Ideas in Printing	January
	It's OK	February
	It's OK if No One Sees It	March
	Theme for the 2007 Fiscal Year	April
	Charming Person	May
	Moment of Introspection	June
	Modification of Obun Printing's Values	July
	Pitchers and Catchers	August
	The New Pillar: Manufacturing for Emotional Values	September
	Professional and Pseudo Professional	October
	Inventory	November
	Training Trip	December

2006 »	New Thoughts	January
	I am Angry	February
	Different Impressions of Different People	March
	Innovation	April
	Vocation and Responsibility	May
	Existing Business and Internet Business	June
	If You Do Not Know, Ask	July
	Learn from me	August
	Undesirable jobs	September
	Knowledge and Wisdom	October
	Envy	November
	Greeting the Sixtieth Anniversary of Obun Printing—Things Accomplished, and Things to Do	December

2005 »	Start of a New Year	January
	Many Doors	February
	Relationships	March
	Another Pillar	April
	Company with Fantastic Employees	May
	Words I Like, Words I Dislike	June
	Climate, Constitution and Culture	July
	I Dare Object	August
	To Chase, or To Be Chased	September
	Learning	October
	A Culture that Does Not Look into Each Other's Eyes	November
	I Recommend Acting	December

2004 »	Thoroughness	January
	55 year-old wine	February
	Preparation	March
	Instability	April
	Putting Values into Practice	May
	Putting Philosophy into Practice	June
	Allowed to Live	July
	Moment of Tears	August
	Golf - Image Training	September
	Good Morning Mail	October
	Partnership Management	November
	Seeing, but not Understanding	December

2003 »	Encounters	January
	Let's Speak Japlish	February
	I Like Myself	March
	What is Work?	April
	Work Plus Something	May
	Growth	June
	About Communication Part 3: Communication Manuals	July
	Trustable and Reliable	August
	Without Quibbles	September
	Enhancing Sensitivity	October
	To everything there is a Season	November
	Praise	December

2002 »	Looking Forward to a "Tough" Year	January
	Clippings	February
	The Obun Style	March
	What I Did after Reading Jack Welch's Straight from the Gut	April
	Wavering between Joy and Sorrow	May
	Love or Like	June
	Management Based on Ethical Standards	July
	Individual Strength and Company Strength	August
	Styles of Business Management	September
	Rust	October
	Being a Good Communicator	November
	Words and Letters	December

2001 »	Trying Harder to Be the "e-Printer"	January
	Talking about Communication-No.1	February
	About Mentors	March
	Talking about Communication	April
	Speech at the Company Orientation	May
	Problem Solving	June
	Shacho-Juku (President's School)	July
	"Going Concern: My Management Policy"	August
	Let's Reset!	September
	Diversity of Human Beings-Part I	October
	Rebellion	November
	Judgment and Decision-Making	December

2000 »	What I Learned from Self-Doubt	February
	Even a Horse Has Its Own Free Will	March
	Talk Positively	April
	Uncomfortable People to Be With	May
	Achieve Results	June
	Identity, Personality and Being Yourself	July
	Creating New Culture	August
	Five Faces	September
	Better than Best	October
	Our Assets	November
	The Trinity	December