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  • Kindai Management Review

Humanizing Management and Innovation

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
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  • | Pages:10
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Abstract

This article is an excerpt from The Wise Company book that Ikujiro Nonaka and I published in October 2019 from Oxford University Press. It is a sequel to The Knowledge-Creating Company book we published 25 years ago. As our thinking evolved from information to knowledge to wisdom, we have increasingly pushed for a more humane form of management that uses unique human qualities to innovate for the good of society. They include imagination, empathy, intuition, ideals, morals, sensitivity, and more. The article starts out by addressing our rationale on why we are putting these human qualities at the center of management when the world is becoming more complex and digital. The article then discusses the future of innovation, which we divided into three stages: Zero to One; One to Nine; and Nine to Ten. In every stage, there will be a fusion of the analog and the digital, where humans and machines will work together and co-evolve. We conclude, however, that humans will lead the co-evolution in the first and third stages, while machines will lead in the second stage.

Keywords

Knowledge Creation; Knowledge Practice; Phronesis; Practical Wisdom; Ba; Continuous Innovation; Fusion Of Analog And Digital; Management As A Way Of Life; Management Style; Emotions; Innovation and Management

Citation

Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Humanizing Management and Innovation." Kindai Management Review 8 (2020): 20–29.
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