[Book Sip] Human-Centered Management 'Chogaeinjuui'

Some sentences encapsulate the entire content of the book itself, while others instantly resonate with the reader’s heart, creating a connection with the book. Here, we excerpt and introduce such meaningful sentences from the book. - Editor’s note

This book focuses on humans rather than technology, addressing what attitudes we should adopt and, furthermore, how to manage and lead organizations. It calmly argues that various assumptions and beliefs about the world, individuals, organizations, and management that we once believed to be ‘scientific’ are actually highly unscientific products. Based on key evidence from modern scientific research and directions, it presents directions and concrete methodologies.

In the face of the question, “How will our organization act and what results will it produce in extreme and unpredictable problem situations?” where does our organization currently stand? Is our organization perhaps like the old Microsoft Encarta team, believing that only we can do it and that we control everything in the market? Can our organization, when faced with unexpected defects, problems, or crises, flexibly detect signals for problem-solving and cooperate like the sailors of the Palau fleet? Or do we become rigid in the face of serious problems, helplessly waiting for orders and control from above? What we truly desire lies here. The essence of management in a complex society is that when unexpected crises or problems arise, even without strong orders and directives, the organization itself self-organizes to detect signals of innovation and naturally manifests emergence. In other words, the management we pursue should be the implementation of a sustainable culture where the organization’s self-similarity naturally self-organizes in extreme problem situations, leading to emergence and innovation. The transition from centralized control to decentralized autonomy, from authority by control to emergence by self-organization, is changing the future of countless companies. Companies that initially feared or ignored this phenomenon are now changing their attitudes and putting all their efforts into becoming emergent systems themselves. Before expressing and predicting the future with technology-friendly terms like ‘4th Industrial Revolution’ and ‘Digital Transformation,’ if we dare to predict the future flow from an organizational perspective, companies that survive sustainably in this era of great transformation will be those that implement and manage an ‘emergent ecosystem’ within their organizations in some way. - From Chapter 2 The Rules of the Survival Game: Attitudes to Life and Management Required by the New Order

Chogaeinjuui (Hyper-individualism) | Written by Sanghyo Leejae | Hans Media | 576 pages | 30,000 KRW