Japan

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Miyawaki Ayako Retrospective: I saw, I cut, I applied

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“The role of top management is to give employees a sense of crisis as well as a lofty ideal” (Nonaka, 1985, p. 142). This intentional chaos, which is referred to as “creative chaos,” increases tension within the organization and focuses the attention of organizational members on defining the problem and resolving the crisis situation.

Hirotaka Takeuchi • The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

It is this mastery of form that the Japanese method of instruction seeks to inculcate. Practice, repetition, and repetition of the repeated with ever increasing intensity are its distinctive features for long stretches of the way.