It's funny how it doesn't match actual Japanese mentality. Sometimes cultures emphasize concepts as a way to balance against actual underlying mentality. It's kind of like how Islam is a very anti-rape religion or Judaism emphasizes not murdering people. I guess those people really need to hear the message.
The actual mentality of Japanese work is methodical but not improving. Do everything the same every day. Make no improvements. Make no degradation. It's one of the reasons why they work the most hours but produce less product per worker. In the US or China if there is a trick you can use to 4x your scale easily you do it. You iterate fast on making big improvements. In Japan they might talk about making daily improvements but they do it in the smallest way possible and everyone covers their ass by doing things the same way no matter what.
At one point I thought Japan was kind of based for having a high care for doing things "correctly" but then I realized a weakness. The motivation of the Japanese is very different than the west. I consider Japan and the west to be "do good" cultures. They value doing something positive in the world, unlike some cultures. But I eventually realized that Japan's motivation for doing good is 100% derived from a sense of external judgement. But western good doing is derived from genuinely wanting positive outcomes. So the Japanese will only make improvements on something to the degree that it is an external expectation on them, while there are many other external expectations they are trying to balance that are pushing in the exact opposite direction.
I guess because this guy is from the Kaizen Institute he's trying to push Japan out of that problem. But he wouldn't be doing that if it didn't have a problem.
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It's funny how it doesn't match actual Japanese mentality. Sometimes cultures emphasize concepts as a way to balance against actual underlying mentality. It's kind of like how Islam is a very anti-rape religion or Judaism emphasizes not murdering people. I guess those people really need to hear the message.
The actual mentality of Japanese work is methodical but not improving. Do everything the same every day. Make no improvements. Make no degradation. It's one of the reasons why they work the most hours but produce less product per worker. In the US or China if there is a trick you can use to 4x your scale easily you do it. You iterate fast on making big improvements. In Japan they might talk about making daily improvements but they do it in the smallest way possible and everyone covers their ass by doing things the same way no matter what.
At one point I thought Japan was kind of based for having a high care for doing things "correctly" but then I realized a weakness. The motivation of the Japanese is very different than the west. I consider Japan and the west to be "do good" cultures. They value doing something positive in the world, unlike some cultures. But I eventually realized that Japan's motivation for doing good is 100% derived from a sense of external judgement. But western good doing is derived from genuinely wanting positive outcomes. So the Japanese will only make improvements on something to the degree that it is an external expectation on them, while there are many other external expectations they are trying to balance that are pushing in the exact opposite direction.
I guess because this guy is from the Kaizen Institute he's trying to push Japan out of that problem. But he wouldn't be doing that if it didn't have a problem.
The future of Japan?