🌸Management Future Notebook - Monday (Issue 75) - Complete Preservation Edition: 'Why Organizations Need a Composer'

🌸Management Future Notebook - Monday (Issue 75) - Complete Preservation Edition
'Why Organizations Need a Composer'
— It is 'creation,' not 'performance,' that determines a company's future
(Written by Akifumi Yasumura / Business Capability Development Co., Ltd.)

On Mondays, I deliver substantial topics on management.

■ Introduction

Recently, a business owner confided in me:
'My company is working hard, but the notes just don't harmonize.'
Leaders are often compared to conductors.
A conductor draws out the performance of the orchestra, aligns the notes, harmonizes the whole, and provides great satisfaction to the audience.
However, if the notes aren't harmonizing in the first place, isn't it possible that the issue isn't the performance, but rather that 'the music itself doesn't exist'?
Why is a conductor alone not enough, and how should a manager be?
Today's theme is about an essential presence for transforming a company:

the role of 'Manager = Composer'.

■ Music and organizations have a surprisingly similar structure

The role structure of music is very similar to the hierarchy of a company.

However, much of corporate education to date has been biased toward 'performer training'.
Skill training, operational training, manuals—these are all about 'how to perform'.
But what is truly needed for an organization to change is
future understanding = the composer's perspective
.

◆ Conductors and composers 'see the world' differently

A conductor thinks about 'how to perform existing music'.
A composer decides 'what kind of music to create'.
To describe the difference between Karajan and Bernstein, famous in the music world, in a nutshell:
• Karajan: A 'master of reproduction' who pursued perfect, beautiful sound.
• Bernstein: A composer-like conductor who 'reconstructed' music with passion and creativity.
This difference is very essential when applied to a company.

Conductor (Department Manager) = Optimization work / Reproducibility• Balancing
• Timing
• Creating organizational harmony

Composer (Manager) = Creative work / Future work• What kind of future to create
• What kind of company to express
• What kind of society to realize
For example, the act of verbalizing a 'philosophy' is similar to a composer deciding on a 'theme'.
In other words,

Leader = Optimization of performanceManager = Creation of the work (also responsible for performance - a heavy responsibility)
.

■ The translation and editing skills required for a Manager = Composer

Management is a crystallization of techniques that build the entire structure by accumulating choices and judgments.
It is almost the same as the work of a composer who 'translates' abstract information like emotions, experiences, and worldviews into sound, 'edits' by stripping away unnecessary elements, and 'structures' the whole.
Management is the act of creating an ideal future from scratch while conducting the 'orchestra' that is the organization. Rather than tracing existing answers, managers need the creativity and vision of a composer to generate new value.
The background to Konosuke Matsushita saying,
'Management is an art,'
is precisely this 'creativity'.

■ Editor's Note

As I manage my own business, I think about the fact that I must build the muscles of translation and editing skills required for a manager.
Continuing to write this Management Future Notebook is also part of my translation and editing training.

■ Today's Question

In your company,
'What kind of music are we creating?'
is there such a question?

■ Cat's Mutterings

'Is creation making something with bonito flakes? Meow.'

■ Conclusion

Management is a creative act that builds the future.
Today's conclusion is simple.
■ Today's conclusion: Managers must be 'composers'.
The future music of your company can only be born from your own hands.
Please let that first note resonate starting today.

👉 Please feel free to share your thoughts.

Send them to yasumura@biz-noukai.com. I will definitely reply.

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