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id: japanese-nemawashi
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title: Nemawashi Informal Alignment
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description: >-
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A Japanese organisational practice of informally consulting each
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stakeholder one-on-one before a formal decision meeting, so the meeting
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confirms rather than surprises. Originating in Japanese corporate and
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bureaucratic culture, nemawashi (literally "digging around the roots")
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prepares the ground for consensus.
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source: Japanese corporate practice / nemawashi tradition
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source_url: https://www.japanintercultural.com/
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tags: [japanese, nemawashi, decision-making, consensus, workplace]
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forked_from: null
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image: null
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steps:
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- headline: Map the stakeholders
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description: >-
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The proposer identifies everyone whose support or non-objection is
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needed for the decision to hold, including those outside the formal
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meeting.
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- headline: Consult each individually
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description: >-
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The proposer meets each stakeholder one-on-one, shares the proposal,
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and hears their concerns, questions, and suggested changes —
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before any group meeting.
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- headline: Revise the proposal
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description: >-
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The proposer revises the proposal in light of what they have heard,
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incorporating concerns or preparing responses for them.
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- headline: Confirm in formal meeting
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description: >-
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When the formal meeting convenes, each stakeholder has already seen
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the proposal and raised their concerns. The meeting confirms the
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decision quickly.
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outcome: >-
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A decision is confirmed in a formal meeting with no surprises, because
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the real deliberation happened in prior individual conversations.
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practice: >-
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Nemawashi is not backroom dealing — it is respect for each person's
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stake. Skipping it and springing a proposal in a meeting is read as
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discourtesy, not efficiency. |