[Management Talk] Imagining, Acting, and Enjoying the Results #337

Good evening, everyone.
This is Saeki.

Despite it being a three-day weekend, it has been drizzling all day here in Toyama Prefecture.
However, the temperature has dropped just a little, and seeing the chestnuts from the tree in the neighbor's garden turn color and fall to the ground makes me feel that autumn has arrived.

Now, we have successfully completed another week of our agriculture-welfare collaboration project without any accidents.
Regarding last week's challenge of improving weeding efficiency, the introduction of a brush cutter has accelerated our work efficiency significantly.

In doing so, I discovered a different perspective.
Since using a brush cutter is dangerous, I basically do not use it while the residents are working, or I work alone in a distant, separate area.

Therefore, I do the weeding in the harvesting areas either early in the morning or after the residents have gone home.

Then, I realized something interesting.
Currently, only about 20% of the weeding in the work area is finished.
Even though it is an experimental farm, there are about eight ridges, so I need to create paths on both sides, meaning 16 areas need to be weeded.

The other day, I managed to finish weeding one path from start to finish.
The next day, the residents gathered in the area where I had finished weeding and started working there.

I see. Although no one said it out loud, I realized that the weeds were indeed in the way and made it difficult to walk.

I felt that what is truly important in the agriculture-welfare collaboration project is "imagination."
Imagination is a very important factor in business, but it is about visualizing what kind of reaction customers, the public, and society will have to the actions you take.

On the other hand, I realized that in the agriculture-welfare collaboration project, in addition to the image mentioned above, it is necessary to imagine and speak for the feelings and thoughts of the residents who work with us.

The root is the same, but I think the difficulty and the interesting part of the agriculture-welfare collaboration project is that the vector of the image is in two directions.

The reason it is interesting is that the residents respond immediately with their actions as a result of me taking actions based on the feelings of the residents I imagined.

Indeed, having a response to an action is very rewarding.

I felt that this also applies to myself.
When I ask someone else to do something, questions come up, and by responding to them quickly, I feel that we can continue to run together without letting the other person's motivation or enthusiasm wane.

Once again, I feel that business, and by extension social life, cannot be completed by one person alone.
Communicating, imagining each other's feelings, and accomplishing something together.
I feel that this is the real thrill of life and the interesting part of being human.

Well then, everyone, take care.