Special Feature
Special Movie
Talking with Kusumi: Thinking About the Panasonic Leadership Principles—Implementing Employee Entrepreneurship
In this discussion, Yuki Kusumi, Group CEO, sits down with four employees involved in the formulation of the Panasonic Leadership Principles (PLP) to talk about the implementation of employee entrepreneurship and utilization of the principles.
0:00 introduction
0:11 How did "PX" get started?
2:58 PX is more than just IT innovation
4:17 Management and heads working with the IT departments
7:34 Evolving with world standards
11:10 Data as management resources – Data is oil
15:03 Breaking down the negative legacies
19:06 Change the culture - Practice employee entrepreneurship
21:55 Employee entrepreneurship - Learning from Morimasa Ogawa
25:16 PX upholds "frontlines"
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Cover page
The cover of the current issue was shot at Panasonic XC KADOMA, which opened in the city of Kadoma, Osaka (in front of Keihan Electric Railway Nishisanso Station) in May this year. As a next-generation workspace of the Panasonic Group, the facility features office rooms and an open space for collaborating with internal and external colleagues as well as the local community.
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[ Editors’ Postscript ]
- Before the talking with Kusumi, the participants shared their thoughts on employee entrepreneurship via Teams. It’s a shame we couldn’t include it as an additional feature! (Hirosuke Nakanishi)
- Autonomous Organizational Personnel by Ryuta Suzuki is a book that describes exactly what employee entrepreneurship is. (Junko Okabe)
- For me, a career is a long journey back and forth to find out what it really means to work and how to go about it. (Yo Iwata)
- I’m learning about independence from my beloved dog. In turn, I hope that my daughter can learn about independence from me. (Yasushi Namikawa)
- I love to take on new challenges. For me, the most important PLP is Evolution. (Tatsuya Fukuzawa)
- I’m a mother of two who has just joined the Editorial Team. I’ll do everything I can to create meaningful content for the reader. (Aki Aramaki)
- If you work with a sense of ownership and with the mindset of a leader, every day becomes more exciting. (Yasuhiro Yonezawa)
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