tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5 2012-04-01T18:39:00Z 電通レイザーフィッシュ前社長、渡邊 竜介のブログ Movable Type Pro 4.292 tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.342 2012-04-01T18:33:54Z 2012-04-01T18:39:00Z

This posting is for people staying in Ja...

Reo Watanabe https://pid.nhk.or.jp/pid04/ProgramIntro/Show.do?pkey=001-20120406-11-26035 チャンネル：NHK/BS1 放送日： 2012年4月6日（金） 放送時間：翌日午前0:00～翌日午前0:50（50分） 米ハーバード大学のケネディスクールはまさに国際社会の指導者養成機関。３月そこで学 ぶ院生が、東北の被災地を訪れた。彼らの目に被災地と日本の政治はどう映ったのか。 米ハーバード大学は世界の"知"の最高峰として知られる。中でも公共政策を教える大 学院、ケネディスクールは、現・国連事務総長や世界銀行総裁など国際社会のリーダーを 輩出してきた。院生の多くは、各国のエリート官僚やＮＧＯのリーダーなどである。３月 、ここで学ぶ院生２３人が、東北の被災地を訪れた。復興を目指す被災地と復興を指揮す る日本の政治家は彼らの目にどう映ったのか。次世代のエリートが見た日本の姿を追う。]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.341 2012-03-25T00:43:19Z 2012-04-01T18:41:06Z

With Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at th...

Reo Watanabe With Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda at the Office of Prime Minister in Tokyo on March 15 From March 11 to March 17, six Japanese students at Harvard Kennedy School organized Japan Trip and took other 24 HKS students to Tokyo and Tohoku. We met several high-ranking officials including Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Deputy Governor of Bank of Japan Kiyohiko Nishimura. We also visited Ichinoseki and Rikuzen Takata in Tohoku just one year after the East Japan Great Earthquake to see the current recovery process from the tsunami disaster. The several media covers our trip as follows. Japan Times introduces our trip well in English. And NHK will broadcast a 50 minutes long special program titled as "Young Harvard Intellectuals Visit Tohoku." ・Sankei Shimbun Newspaper (March 14) ・Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper (March 14) ・Japan Times Newspaper (March 25) ・Asahi Weekly Magazine (March 26) ・NHK BS1 (0:00 am on April 7. The program will begin at the same time when April 7 starts) Organizing the trip was an impressive experience for me. When we planned the itinerary, we focused on how impressively we can and should demonstrate the current Japanese situation. But as a result, I learned a lot from the trip participants. Many of them pointed out the beauty of Japan, not only the delights of Japanese cuisine and the advancement of Japanese technology, but also Japanese people. They were amazed by Japanese resilience from the disaster. When we visited Deputy City Mayor of Rikuzen Takata City, Takashi Kubota, he regrettably explained that as many as 7% of city population were lost from the Tsunami Disaster last March. It was true that it was such a tragedy in the Japanese history, but our foreign friends had a quite different opinion about the number. It was unbelievably fortunate that only 7% died in spite of the fact that almost all the city regions were completely devastated by the tsunami. They guess that it was because Japanese society had very well prepared for earthquakes and tsunamis, and because Japanese people considerately supported each other to escape. If the same scale of the disaster would occur in a different country, it would result in much bigger damages. I think their guess is right, and I am now very proud of the beauty of Japanese people and society. In reality Japan have a tremendous amount of social and economic problems, but we should not forget our PRIDE in Japanese excellence and our HOPE in the future. A Miraculous Pine Tree, the only surviving tree in the pine forest on the Rikuzen Takata coast after the tsunami disaster. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.340 2012-03-05T02:44:09Z 2012-03-05T03:01:52Z

My Japanese classmate at the Harvard Ken...

Reo Watanabe My Japanese classmate at the Harvard Kennedy School, Kanoko Kamata, started an interesting blog. http://kanokokamatahks.wordpress.com/ She is an aggressive student aspiring to make Japan a better place by encouraging civil society in Japan. She is one of the main organizers of Japan Trip starting from next Sunday. She planned and coordinated all the schedule to visit the Tohoku region during the trip. I think that her blog is a good fit for people, especially Japanese female, to think about studying abroad or at Harvard to change the world. BTW, it's Japanese. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.339 2012-02-29T02:26:41Z 2012-02-29T02:49:15Z

Last Thursday, Consul General of Japan ...

Reo Watanabe Last Thursday, Consul General of Japan to New England, Takeshi Hikihara hosted the party for all the participants of Japan Trip next month. It had to be the wonderful prelude for them. I would also like to introduce the article of THE CITIZEN, Harvard Kennedy School's official student newspaper, about the Japan Trip. It covers our reason why we decided to organize a trip to Japan in this timing. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.338 2012-02-28T06:58:56Z 2012-02-28T07:29:26Z

Several Japanese students at Harvard Ke...

Reo Watanabe Several Japanese students at Harvard Kennedy School are now organizing Japan Trip from March 11 to 17. I am also an organizing member. 30 graduate students will attend the trip. We will visit Tokyo and Tohoku (Hiraizumi and Rikuzen Takada) and see the recovery status and a resilience of Japan since the Great Earthquake just one year ago. I wish future public leaders in the world will become to love Japan. Japan Caucus (Japan Club) at Harvard Kennedy School developed a special blog site (http://www.hksjapancaucus.com/) and will update the trip. Please enjoy it. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.337 2012-01-28T06:10:20Z 2012-01-28T06:38:57Z

Leadership is defined by Professor Dean ...

Reo Watanabe Professor Dean Williams at Harvard Kennedy School as follows. LEADERSHIP is the PROCESS of mobilizing people in complex systems to confront and deal with problematic realities for the purpose of improving the human condition and generating progress. He clearly distinguishes Leadership from Authority. Authority is a position, but Leadership is a process, a practice, or an activity. For example, Prime Minister, President, CEO, Principal, or Captain, those are all a position in a respective organization, school, or team. Many people unconsciously assume people in those positions (or authorities) to play a leadership role, especially when they face a challenge or a difficulty. In Dean's definition, however, leadership could or should be exercised by anyone in an organization or team. I think this is quite counter-intuitive but significantly important when we think of Adaptive Leadership. Professor Dean Williams is the author of "Real Leadership." The book was translated and published in Japan last year. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.336 2012-01-26T03:34:44Z 2012-01-26T03:47:57Z

A leadership lesson which I learned at H...

Reo Watanabe A leadership lesson which I learned at Harvard today: If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Collaboration is one of the most important elements of leadership, and it enables us to keep adaptive and flexible. I have also read this proverb in Al Gore's book "Our Choice" before. tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.335 2012-01-24T21:43:37Z 2012-01-26T03:34:20Z

GAGA-SAMA WILL COME TO HARVARD. Lady Gag...

Reo Watanabe Lady Gaga will come to Harvard on February 29 to announce the launch of her and her mother's foundation, The Born This Way Foundation. According to her mom, Cynthia Germanotta, the foundation will deal with creating a better world, especially focusing on young people. Lady Gaga was one of the first celebrities to express the strong support for the Tohoku Earthquake last March, and became extremely popular among Japanese people. I enjoyed watching her sing in The Red and White Singing Contest, the most popular TV program in Japan, on the new year's eve. I do not know any special relationships between Lady Gaga and Harvard, but it sounds very interesting. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.334 2012-01-15T04:40:05Z 2012-01-15T22:29:18Z

The 10-day intensive course "Leadership ...

Reo Watanabe The 10-day intensive course "Leadership on the Line" by Professor Ronald Heifetz at Harvard Kennedy School has ended. The course was held from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm each day from January 3 to January 13 except Sunday. Before starting the course, I thought that the course might be too intensive to efficiently learn. But after starting the course, such a concern was soon blown away, and in the end it was far beyond my expectation. This course is based on a couple of assumptions. One is that human beings are programmed by a lot of wisdoms brought by our ancestors, our communities, and our professional experiences. We unconsciously make a decision based upon our conventional wisdoms. In most cases, the decision making process works well. But when we face a new-type of challenge, which needs adaptive leadership, the process based on conventional wisdoms does not function well. Another assumption is that people often confuse their roles and their self-identity. For example in my case, I have a lot of roles such as a man, a Japanese, a husband, a parent, a son, an uncle, a student, a former CEO, an entrepreneur, an marketing professional, and a yacht sailor. When we deeply committed ourselves to one role, we easily tend to confuse the role with ourselves, which make us vulnerable to any leadership challenges. Thus, during the 10 days, we have been asked to search for an answer to a philosophical question. "Who am I?" If we can identify ourselves apart from our roles and can anchor ourselves well, we can keep our spirit alive to make a difference for the world. These concepts are sometimes quite counterintuitive and difficult to understand and exercise, but those are also profound and meaningful. It was really an amazing leadership program. tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.333 2012-01-11T06:07:24Z 2012-01-11T06:59:51Z

I had a good news. I was admitted as Ass...

Reo Watanabe Harvard's U.S.-Japan Relations Program. So I will continue my research about leadership development in the next academic year at Harvard. The U.S.-Japan program is founded in 1980 in order to deal with the development of relations between the U.S. and Japan, and has an outstanding alumni network such as Ban Ki-Moon, Hisashi Owada, and Heizo Takenaka. At the U.S.-Japan program, I plan to assess the applicability of a great variety of education methods of leadership development in the U.S. to Japanese society and develop a Japanese model of effective leadership education. In Japan, despite the fact that the country has become infamous for its significant lack of leadership over the last two decades, academic concepts of leadership have not been widely established and thus no formal leadership education has been offered so far. As the current leadership challenges in Japan are acute, it is time for Japan to strengthen its people's leadership capabilities through a practical leadership education model. I believe this research has a highly meaningful potential for future leadership education in Japan. I am very excited about it. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.332 2012-01-05T03:15:14Z 2012-01-05T03:46:15Z

The January semester started from Januar...

Reo Watanabe The January semester started from January 3rd. In this semester, I decided to attend a 10-day intensive program titled "Leadership on the line" taught by Professor Ronald Heifetz. It is a supplemental course to "Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change" taught by the same professor in the fall semester. His courses are ones of the most popular courses at Harvard Kennedy School. Around 120 students learn from 9:00am to 5:30pm everyday from January 3rd to 13th except Sunday. In this course, we learn how dangerous to lead is, and how to stay alive when leading. I agree with this course concept. Every leader has to understand the risk to lead. The students are very diversified from public to private, from young graduate students to a former CEO of a large automobile company. There are also a lot of cross registered students from MIT and other Harvard programs. It is an amazing environment to learn and experience leadership skills. Today, we analyzed four cases in a small group. This is the same amount that we had learnt for one month in the last fall semester. It was like a boot camp. tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.331 2012-01-02T14:23:11Z 2012-01-02T15:24:35Z

I have received a lot of comments regard...

Reo Watanabe In Charles Darwin"s Theory of Evolution,if a species is placed in a situation where it must either adapt or die, only the strongest of the species will adapt and survive. The weaker of the species will die. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2012:/reo//5.330 2012-01-01T07:50:08Z 2012-01-02T14:41:04Z

We have just entered into 2012 around a ...

Reo Watanabe "An honor killing or honour killing is the homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief of the perpetrators that the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community. Honor killings are directed mostly against women and girls, but have been extended to men." I guess most people think that it is totally a human rights violation and not acceptable at all, but it is happening even in the U.S. and Europe. Believe it or not, I have learnt that the same kind of act was legally acceptable in many regions in Japan until 19th century. There are now a lot of ethnic conflicts happening in the world. Many people believe that Japanese are a homogenous race, and Japan does not have any ethnic conflicts. But it is not true. Japanese are not homogenous, but Japan had some indigenous people especially in the northern and southern parts. I am sure a lot of conflicts occurred in the past. We have just not had a lot of chances to learn about them at school. The only difference between the ethnic conflicts in Japan and in different countries is the time, a couple of hundreds years ago and now. Human civilization has faced similar issues throughout its history. What is the solution? It is education. That was an agreement we reached last night. Especially, female education will be a key, because women have to know that they tend to be more oppressed in the world, but at the same time they are the first and most intimate educators of children. In order to correct and innovate our values in the next generation, female education would be one of the key solutions. Our world is getting more complicated, but we have to overcome. And Japan has to revive from the earthquake disaster last year. We have to make the year 2012 a very important step for the world and Japan. ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2011:/reo//5.329 2011-10-07T03:49:26Z 2011-10-07T05:19:48Z

スティーブ・ジョブズが昨日亡くなりました。５６歳は、私とちょうど１０歳違い。人生...

Reo Watanabe iPhone発表の際のプレゼン、すごく分かり易くてよかった。でもそんなにすごいプレゼンかなあ？　基本的には新製品紹介のプレゼンなので、完成度が高いプレゼンと言っても、それほど難易度の高いプレゼンではないように感じます。 それではなぜ、彼のプレゼンが格好いいのか？　心に響くのか？　 「本物」だからだと思います。プレゼンがカッコいいというよりも、商品開発自体に彼の魂が入っているからカッコいい。彼が夢を一つ一つ実現して行く姿がカッコいい。本気で生きている人間のやることは、やっぱり断然カッコいい。 もうひとつ彼の生き様に、心揺さぶられるのは、彼の決して幸せとはいえない生い立ち、アップルとの数奇な関係、そしてガンとの不屈の戦い、にあると思います。結局、人生に不幸なんてない。失敗なんてない。あるのは自分の信じることを全うすることだと、教えてくれる、すごい人生でした。 心よりご冥福をお祈りします。 そして、ありがとう。 ]]> tag:www.dentsu-razorfish.com,2011:/reo//5.328 2011-09-10T05:01:59Z 2011-09-10T06:02:13Z

　ショッピング・ディが終わり、秋学期に履修するコース登録をすることになりました。...

Reo Watanabe Brian Mandell教授のネゴシエーション（交渉学）で、なんと落札ポイントは９５０ポイントでした。つまり彼の授業を受講したければ、持ちポイントをほぼ全て賭けないと受講できないことになります。１０００ポイントは秋学期だけではなく通年なので、これを受講するともう他の人気科目にはほとんどビッティングできなくなります。思い起こせば、ビジネススクールでもネゴシエーションは大変人気があり、私はその際に受講しました。当時は、どうして大学院にまで行って、車や不動産会社のセールスマンになるようなスキルを勉強するのか不思議に感じましたが、実際受講してみると、ビジネスから私生活に至るまで、いかに交渉力が重要か痛感しました。同時に、日本の知識層がいかに交渉力に疎いかも痛感しました。気候変動交渉や通商交渉、企業の国際M＆Aの交渉を見ると、時おり政界や実業界のトップが、とんでもない意思決定や交渉をしてしまうのを見ると、日本の交渉レベルの稚拙さ、戦略力の弱さを感じます。 　ともあれ、私は、今秋学期は「リーダーシップ」を徹底的に強化することに決めました。リーダーシップというものも、日本的な考えでは一体何をどうやって学ぶのかイメージしにくいですが、こちらでは数多くのリーダーシップの講座があります。そもそもケネディスクールのミッションが、To train exceptional public leadersとのことなので、その力の入れようはかなりのものがあります。リーダーシップ関連で最も人気の高かったのはRonald Heifetz教授の「Exercising Leadership : Politics of Change」という講座で、私も受講することにしました。このクラスはケネディスクールの中でも大変特異な講座とのことで、これについては機会を見つけてまたご紹介しようと思います。 　 　リーダーシップ関連では、Barbara Kellerman教授の「Leadership Literacy」、そしてMarshall Ganz先生の「Public Narrative」という講座を受講することにしました。この３講座を通して、自分のリーダーシップそのものについて、そしてリーダーシップ論の変遷について、そしてリーダーシップを発揮するスピーチの力について学ぼうと思います。 　この他にもう一つ、夏学期に続いてミクロ経済学の講座を受講します。私は大学で経済学部でした。１０年後にビジネススクールでも若干経済学を勉強しました。そしてまた１２年後に経済学を学びます。懲りないというか、なんと言うか。でも今更ながら、経済学の面白さを、感じるようになってきました。 ]]>