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Why Do Global Elites Use This “Framework” To Move The World?

Create and Act on Global Standard Scenarios via “Analogy”
-- Leveraging Aristotelian or Peircean Reasoning

A Mindset for Survival in an Uncertain Future!
AuthorTakeo Harada
PublisherKanki Publishing Inc.
CategoryBusiness
Estimated length232P
Size188 × 132 mm

Why Has the World Become Such a Volatile Place?

The pace of recent global changes has been intensifying ever further.

Terrorism, currency, defaulting risks and disease pandemics… Have we ever known an era where the risks were so prevalent and spread so rapidly?

“Volatility” is the perfect term coined for such violent metamorphoses.

With the entire world interlinked by finance and IT, temporal and spatial “characteristics” and “distinctions” are gradually disappearing.


What’s the Mind “Framework” to Forecast an Uncertain Future?

Consequently, the events of today can never be the same as yesterday, or even tomorrow. People face a reality where things can be turned upside down each passing day and must specifically address and act on such changes to survive.

“Something must be done to save Japan from its doomsday!”

This concept suddenly sparked the author into life in 2005, to voluntarily leave the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, his long-time workplace, in a serious quest to find the answer. The cumulative and challenging study and thought engaged in ever since finally spawned the ultimate thinking “framework” or mindset - key to surviving the crisis of uncertain times or inspiring new ideas in humanity of all temporal and spatial locations. This framework is “analogy”.


What is “Analogy” - the Ultimate Thinking Method?

Alongside “deduction” and “induction”, “analogy” is a traditional Western form of reasoning and compared with Aristotle’s “apagōgē” or “abduction” by Charles Sanders Peirce. Unfortunately in Japan, “analogy” is not taught in school, although the other two are included in the mathematics curriculum.

However, the analogy “framework” is precisely what the most influential global elites use to handle all aspects of global events. With this approach, they have actually overcome unstable and critical times by squeezing out innovative ideas to form new ages.

Over the past decade, the author has been devoted to studying effective “analogy” techniques, the results of which support his on-site leadership in human resource education for Japanese companies. More importantly, all these programs are based on his own constant and hands-on observation of the framework; actively in use in various global operations.


Why You Should Read This Book?

This book invites you to identify issues in real time, as well as presenting the author’s studies and educational achievements in an accessible format. The contents you find here include what Japanese companies really cannot afford to ignore, in highly volatile times, when drastic breakthroughs are crucial for their workplaces.

The long-lasting stagnation is finally over, with both chaotic changes and opportunities on the horizon. Finding the way forward amid high waves will require completely new types of people for Japan, who can exploit the global standard framework called “analogy” and detailed in this book.



Contents

Chapter 1: What is Happening in Japanese Corporations?
-- Issues Facing Japan, Tossed at the Mercy of the U.S., Europe and China

  • Tragedies Hitting Nationwide Manufacturing Sites 
  • Why Frameworks Are Valued by American/European Businesses?
  • Is It Only Frameworks That American /European Businesses Value?
  • Can Japanese Manufacturing Find a Breakthrough in the Chinese Market?
  • How Does China View Japanese Technological Prowess?
  • The Essence of Innovation Required by Japanese Businesses 
  • What is the “Analogy” Mindset Exploited by American/European Elites?

Chapter 2: The Mind “Framework” That Brings Awareness
-- Analogy Promotes Forward Thinking to an Invisible Future

  • The Meaning of “Awareness” Japanese Companies Must Know
  • A Search for Awareness Dating Back to the Philosopher Aristotle
    Deduction
    Induction
  • “Apagōgē” as a Method to Invoke Hypotheses, Transcend Deduction and Induction
  • Abduction Originated from Apagōgē and Developed by Peirce
    Analytic Inference
    Ampliative Inference
  • The “Analogy” Mind Framework That Brings Awareness
  • Can Design Thinking (which resembles Analogy) Elicit True Awareness
    Understanding
    Observation
    Visualization
    Evaluation and Improvement
    Realization

Chapter 3: Did Japanese Giants of Knowledge Reach Analogy?
-- Japan-Originated Thinking Method Surpassing the U.S. and Europe in Post-War Prosperity

  • Discussion on Creativity which Originated During Japanese Post-War Prosperity
  • The Japan-Originated “KJ Method” as a Primitive Form of Analogy
  • “Kozane Method” by Tadao Umesao, Equally Valued as a KJ Method in Japan’s Post-War Prosperity
  • “Equivalent Transforming Thinking” Spawning Awareness and Innovation
  • Manufacturing Innovations Reasoned by Equivalent Transforming Thinking
  • Why Thinking Methods Proposed by Predecessors Did Not Take Root in Japan

Chapter 4: How to Act Using Forecasts of an Uncertain Future
-- Eight Processes to Create Innovations Using Analogy

  • Why Analogy Can Pave the Way for Action Based on Future Forecasts
  • An Overview of “Analogy” as Applied at Business Forefronts Today
    Retrospect
    Causation
    Synchronicity
    Awareness
    Backcasting
    Goal Setting
    Leadership
    Innovation
  • Can Anyone Become An Innovation Originator?

Chapter 5: How American/European Elites Think and Act
-- How Global Elites Practice “Analogy”

  • Thinking Methods Practiced by Global Elites
  • How Global Elites Apply Analogy
  • History of Studies on Analogy in the U.S. and Europe
    The Trap of “Responsibility”
    The Trap of “Dependency”
    The Trap of “Overactivity”
  • How Awareness Obtained via Analogy is Shared in the U.S. and Europe
  • How Scenarios are Developed to Share Awareness in the U.S. and Europe
  • Why the Framework Analogy Has Rooted in the U.S. and Europe

Chapter 6: How to Achieve the Thinking Framework to Influence the World
-- Eight Steps to Master Analogy

  • Concrete Steps Japanese Can Use to Master Analogy
    Sound Sleep at Night
    Early Morning Wakeup
    Skim-read the Same Internet Media Source Daily While Taking Notes
    Contemplate Correlations Among Noted Matters
    Search for and Read More Information on Topics that Fascinate You
    Create Your Own Scenarios
    Apply Your Scenarios at Your Workplace While Visualizing Them
    Verbalize Your Scenarios for Sharing as a Leader
  • How to Master Analogy Just Like Water Drops Slowly Drill Through a Rock



About the Author

Education


1990-1993 University of Tokyo
                     Major: Public Law


1994-1996 Free University of Berlin
                     Major: Politics


Experience


1993-2005 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan

  • Various essential positions including Deputy Director for DPRK issues,Northeast Asia Division,Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau (2003-2005)

2005-Today CEO,Institute for International Strategy and Information Analysis, Inc.(IISIA)

  • Analyses the "sea changes" in the global market based on OSINT and produces own scenarios for global risk management
  • Teaches analyzing methods and global macro scenarios to employees of Japanese leading companies
  • Participated actively as expert of human resource management in budgetary review by the cabinet office of the government of Japan in 2013
  • Was invited to the Eurasia Business Forum 2014 as keynote speaker
  • Was invited as a panelist to the St. Petersburg Intemational Economic Forum 2014


Languages


Japanese,German and English


Publications


"Jenseits des unentscheidbaren." Springer,2002 (German),"The Economics of Yin and Yang" Book21 Publishing Group,2011 (South Korea) and other more than 25 publications in Japanese language related especially tο International Economy and Politics. The latest publication is "Japan Moves the World History,(Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co.,Ltd.,2014,Japan).



FOREIGN EDITIONS

Publisher株式会社かんき出版
PublicationMay, 2015


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