Translated from 日本語 • View original Jack Welch recommended stretching.
Stretching is working with high goals that may not be possible.
Stretch targets energize. “We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don’t quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
Stretching Makes Humans Grow
Both individuals and teams grow when they try to do things that they can't do now.
If you think about it, we grow rapidly and become adults from the time we are babies.
In the process, everyone **has challenged "what they can't do" and made it "what they can do". **
At first, I couldn't even turn over, but after a year, I was able to walk and was able to talk immediately.
Learn to memorize characters, learn to calculate, to cooperate with others, and sometimes to learn that if you work hard with several people rather than working alone, you will achieve greater results and get great joy.
When you become a member of society and can work like others to some extent, many people stop doing so-called stretching, which allows you to do things you can't do.
Even if growth stops, the world around you and the world will evolve.
In such a situation, people who act with stretch goals will become an overwhelmingly high level.
Team goals are also stretched
Stretching is not just about individuals growing.
The same goes for the team.
Jack's opening sentence "Stretch targets energize" means that stretching goals energize.
Not only do you grow by aiming for what you can't do now, but you can also give energy to your team by taking on challenges.
ISAO's Stretch Goal
What is a stretch goal for the company?
If you think about it that way, isn't it a "vision"?
ISAO's vision is to be a visionary company that makes the world happy.
Currently, most of our business is done in Japan, and our services such as Goalous and Mamoru are still not breaking through.
But the goal is high.
By making the impossible possible and taking on challenges, we are given the energy to work towards our vision.
What Lies Beyond the Stretch Goal
The word "world" in the vision.
Easier said than done.
It's not something you can do easily by saying, "Let's do it!"
With the slogan Go Global, ISAO has shifted its hiring from Japanese-centered to global hiring over the past few years.
In addition, members who have been in ISAO for a long time are also working hard to learn English and international communication.
Growth is painful, but I believe that after growing up, there will be a stretch goal, and there will be greater joy in achieving it, and I will continue to evolve.