... a beginner at something

Important Upgrade for Workplace Operation System

Organization is a lot like software programming.

People follow instructions, mostly. Processors follow instructions, mostly.

A major difference: people may misunderstand at times but most aim to get it why we are in business; why we are doing things this way around here. Processors are just robot followers occasionally plagued by buggy code and exploits. They never ask why or improve on their own.

Overall, shared values, purpose, and intention with the open space for co-creative expression at the workplace makes a people based system more resilient and fault-tolerant, especially for complex processes such as for innovation. The eternal urge to understand why we work this way also happens to be a factor that pulls in an overdue upgrade for the corporate OS.

Airstream Trailer in Yokohama

Meet Mr. Junichi Kanasugi from Yokohama, who enjoys his Airstream trailer for four seasons now, with his wife, his son and the dog, a tan Shiba-Inu. They live around the block and I have passed by his home and the big trailer parked next to it many times, exchanging greetings and small talk.

Only when I learned my remote friends Becky Blanton, who I had met (once), and Tom Bentley write for the Airstream magazine, did I notice the connection, got any interest in the brand at all and approached the neighbor to ask for an interview. So glad he said yes, but like many Japanese, the family do not want their likeness in public, so we have only Mr. Kanasugi in the photos.