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  • vision and culture.

  • The process of creating a “vision” is to verbalize the unspoken, unverbalized “values” that exist within each individual and turn them into words that can be shared.

  • However, there are two patterns as to what happens after the “vision” is created

  • Bad Pattern: Only the “words” of the vision stand alone

    • The word would be “groundless.”
    • Words become “abstract concepts” that are detached from concrete experience and cannot be delved into.
  • When the vision is actually used in the individual’s daily actions and decisions, it is stored within the individual as an individual’s internal experience (internalization).

    • This forms a loosely shared value system among several people, in a word, “culture.”
    • Not the verbalized vision itself, but the value of this shared value “culture”.
    • If this good pattern is followed, the words of the vision will not be considered absolute, and the words of the vision will be revised as needed.
    • If this good pattern is created, “vision” in the form of “short sentences” is not always necessary
      • In cases where, for example, the annual training slides for new employees are revised every year but convey basically the same values, these slides serve the same function as the vision
  • relevance - I was organizing the Unexplored Junior Question Box “Programming Knowledge” and thought that the different members were answering in the same direction without any specific consultation. - alignment


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