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Home Owning Your Time Affording Your Life Bright Sparks
By Eric Barton
23 August 2016
“You shut up!” the man at the head of the table yelled.
Everyone stopped and stared at Keiko Sakurai, who
immediately realised what she had done wrong.
Inventing feedback
Yet, it’s still simply not something that’s done. “If you
don’t hear from your Japanese manager, you’re doing
well,” Schweitzer says. “If your manager asks for an
update on your project, that means you’re not doing
well.”
Managers in Japan aren’t likely to ask
for an update because employees are
" expected to constantly provide them.
It’s a process It’s a process called hou-ren-sou and
called hou-ren- it involves subordinates sending their
Long-term thinking
employee drinking.
feedback is
In fact, Japan has a tradition called
simple: take them nomikai, where colleagues and their
out drinking bosses drink, often a lot, and often
until late night. Still, any feedback
over beers and sake is likely to
concentrate only on what went wrong.
‘Good enough’
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