Fujiko Suda: Worklife

Business Organization Life Cycle

Oct 04, 2003 13:53 pm / Add a comment

Any liv­ing organ­ism is born, lives, and dies. Busi­ness orga­ni­za­tion is a type of liv­ing organ­ism, and it seems many major com­pa­nies in Japan are get­ting to be ancient in age.

Maybe some com­pa­nies can trans­form itself. But I believe best life for orga­ni­za­tion is just like in human’s life, that is, born, live, give life to another being, die. So it seems that the best way for com­pany is give birth to com­pa­nies (sub­sidiaries), let them go (for God’s sake, don’t send peo­ple who became redun­dant at the exist­ing com­pany!), and live out the remain­ing life fully, then die.

Per­haps our unwill­ing­ness to plan for death is reflected in the econ­omy situation.

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