RingoGaSuki said:
I've heard and experienced things like this many times during my time here in Japan too. I was working with management at an NGO and they wanted to spread a story, so they made an animation (one of the most terrible I've ever seen) and spent 200,000+ yen recording it professionally, but forgot to check the script before doing so, and ended up leaving a bunch of mistakes in, so they threw away all that money for nothing (and that's a fuckload for a non-profit). Friends at Rakuten have told me how poor management there is too. Seriously, leadership over here seems to just be awful no matter where you go. As you say, Game Freak is obviously no different, sadly. |
Compared to France, I almost never see here advertisement for management schools, and I think it makes sense. Leadership is non existent in Japan, the hierarchy is usually made depending on the age of people. When they get older, they get promoted, and nobody cares if they are good managers/leaders or not. They don't delegate either, the CEO decides a ton of small stuff, even if he doesn't know anything about it, because you don't have leaders under him.
Seriously, they asked me to "manage from the bottom", because even the guys who are 4 or 5 levels above me in the company and "manage" 50 people have no idea how to manage a team or project. They're technical experts, but worthless as managers.
Society being way more important than the individual, they are educated to be part of a strong society, but in the other hand they are "weaker" as individuals: no leadership, less initiatives, less problem solving capability, less innovation. They're great at following orders, but terrible at deciding the right orders. And of course, even if the manager gives terrible orders, people will obey without saying anything.
Last edited by Faelco - on 12 June 2019