What is a Management Issue? - The Problem of Perspective Level
Is your business running smoothly?
"Well, it's going okay."
Let's set aside that polite social pleasantry for a moment...
Whether you are an employee or a business owner,
you want to control your own future.
Defining issues is also a commitment to the future.
To begin with, what is an issue?
Issues are not decided suddenly;
after firmly grasping the entire management picture,
and thinking about it deeply,
the real issues come into view.
In other words, information gathering and deep thinking are necessary...
Most people say, "I don't have time for that..."
Without mental and temporal breathing room, nothing can begin.
Starting by grasping the current situation
Firmly grasping the current situation
is the starting point, but
it is surprisingly often not fully grasped.
Express what you have grasped in numbers and words.
It is useless to just vaguely say, "It's not quite right."
How far have you come?
What you are doing now
How much more is needed?
and so on; organize actions and results with numbers and words.
Without numbers, things become ambiguous.
Without words, the meaning becomes unclear.
Try expressing one thing in both numbers and words.
It is a surprisingly difficult first hurdle.
Determining the ideal
Ideals expand dreams.
You might end up fantasizing about an impossibly big dream...
To set a realistic ideal,
first try dividing it by time axes: short-term, medium-term, and long-term.
Short-term ideals are relatively easy.
There are one-month or three-month goals,
and it is also possible to set ultra-short-term ideals (goals) for one week, or in some cases, for today.
I recommend trying various things to see how far into the future feels comfortable and exciting,
and can be concretely imagined.
An ideal should not be vague; it is just right when you can visualize the scene realistically.
Here too, we will depict it from the aspects of numbers and words.
If possible, it would be good to be able to draw illustrations or diagrams as well.
The strategy to bridge the gap between the current situation and the ideal is the issue.
The gap between the current situation and the ideal.
To bridge this gap, a strategic approach is the issue.
The current situation is a fact (perceived objectively).
The ideal is a hope (depicted subjectively).
The issue is a resolution (decided with will).
If you put it into a diagram, it looks like this.
The current situation, ideal, and issues influence each other, so
if even one of them becomes ambiguous, the overall balance will collapse.
We will clarify, quantify, verbalize, and define them one by one.
Are you capturing them correctly with numbers and words? That is the problem.
When defining the current situation, ideal, and issues,
expressing them from both the aspects of numbers and wordsis something you are doing?
This seems to be the dividing line between success and failure.
While perceiving things objectively and calmly,
incorporate your subjective will as well.
Just thinking about it in your head will lead to superficiality, so
write it down properly!
I would like to have enough
time and mental leeway to set aside what I have written and review it after a little while.
Problems come from the outside.
Issues well up from the inside.
Thinking about things like that,
I will enjoy my quality time in the morning!
This article was written by
Shigeki Kawahara, a "Future Realization Partner" who increases revenue pillars
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