"The Creator's First-Year Business Skills Encyclopedia" is a great reference for everyone who works

I bought the first book by Mr. Yamada of Shiroshi inc., who I also work with professionally, and read it right away.

As you can tell from the title, it is a book aimed at creators, but when I read it, I realized it's full of essential subjects for everyone who works, including office employees!

Even people with a fair amount of work experience often leave tasks outside their own field to other departments.

For example, I have always been in PR and marketing departments, so when it comes to contracts, I rely entirely on the legal department.

However, if you understand the basic knowledge and why contracts exist, you can communicate with the legal department with an understanding of the meaning, such as asking, "Is there any problem with this?" This will likely reduce troubles and mistakes caused by differences in "common sense" that tend to arise between different professions.

All the items in this book are explained with easy-to-understand text and diagrams from the basics, but these are the parts that left a particularly strong impression on me. (I took notes while reading.)

• For those who have resistance to "earning money," think of it as a "mechanism to continue creating."

• The "client model" is explained based on the proposal document when this book was proposed to the publisher. It is easy to understand because I am reading the final product (the book) right in front of me. You can also download the actual document via a QR code. Very generous.

• The format for meetings with companies is also written in great detail, such as lining up business cards in the order of seating, which is practical even for people with little work experience or those who have only worked in special venture companies.

• Even things that seem difficult, such as contracts and taxes, are introduced with easy-to-understand explanations and diagrams from the basics. Since these are areas that even office workers, not just creators, deal with, it is a useful reference for everyone who works.

It is truly an "encyclopedia" that you can refer back to the relevant pages whenever you have a problem or question. One for every household.


Also, one more thing about Mr. Yamada's wonderfulness.

I really love this note from when Mr. Yamada started the company. I have read it many times.

"Creating the 'one more work' that should have been born."
When I first saw these words in the header image, I trembled, thinking, "Ah, this is what I want to do..."

In my own note, I also wanted to realize "making it possible for anyone to start and continue creating" by reducing the anxiety and worries of creators as much as possible, so I was really happy when Mr. Yamada readily agreed to the first study session.

The content he explained about copyright in the first session is published here. Very generous.

Tonight (5/30), we will hold an online study session with Mr. Yamada to teach us about trademark rights.

This is an emergency event planned in response to the recent issue surrounding the "Yukkuri Chaban Geki" trademark.

Despite the sudden request, Mr. Yamada immediately replied, "Let's do it!" I believe he accepted the request out of a desire to support the feeling that creating is fun for creators, which also permeates through his book.

Trademarks are also one of the pieces of knowledge that creators should know. Since I still have a lot to learn myself, I intend to learn a variety of things from Yamada-san, who always explains things in an easy-to-understand way that is supportive of creators.