[Column] Why do employees rely too much on the president?

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This is because the value judgment criteria of the management are not instilled in the employees. It superficially resembles the separation of parents and children, but the parent-child relationship eventually evolves into mutually independent individuals. However, employees tend to be overly dependent on the president for too long. In a parent-child relationship, independence is fostered by teaching the values, behaviors, and ways of acting expected of adults. However, in small and medium-sized enterprises, there is a lack of ingenuity in transplanting the management's value judgment criteria to the employees. For example, when it comes to business figures, they do not understand the meaning of the numbers and cannot utilize them. As a result, they distance themselves from the figures, and especially in terms of cash flow, there are too many companies that are 100% dependent on the president. Because they do not know how to make judgments, they end up seeking the president's opinion. The highest decision-maker in the company is the management, and by having many employees understand the management's value judgment criteria, they will be able to make their own judgments. This will reduce their dependence on the president. It is not that employees in small and medium-sized enterprises lack ability and therefore cannot do it; rather, it is simply that they have not done it before, so they cannot do it now. The abilities we ordinary people possess are not significantly different.

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