How to Download KOKOROZASHI: The Pursuit of Meaning in Business RTF
This book is for people interested in management leadership, and who seek perspective to better define their professional purpose and impact on society. Reading this book should give young and future MBAs ideas for how to go about the long-term planning of their lives and careers.The book consists of interviews with 11 international executives and entrepreneurs regarding their views on life, business, and purpose. The businesspeople were chosen for the diversity of their stories, backgrounds, and achievement in their careers. All have encountered challenges and are grappling with questions of their purpose in life and how they may continue to develop their kokorozashi, or personal mission. Useful to anyone looking to develop their personal mission, the intent of this book is to provide perspective and inspiration to current and prospective students in the international program at GLOBIS University, in Tokyo (Japan’s largest business school), helping them to chart their own paths toward professional and personal success.The book touches on frameworks developed by Yoshiko Takubo and Keiko Murao, the dean and assistant dean, respectively, of the GLOBIS MBA Japanese program, as well as ideas from "Theory U," by Claus Otto Scharmer, “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership,” by Joseph Jaworski, and “The Alchemist,” by Paulo Coelho de Souza. It also includes a new framework developed by Tomoya Nakamura, dean of the GLOBIS international program, and a preface by Yoshito Hori, president and founder of GLOBIS University and managing partner of GLOBIS Capital Partners, one of the most successful venture funds in Japan.
