In-house recruitment of directors

Cybozu elects 17 self-appointed directors, including first-year new graduates No change in working hours or job description | Caricone News

Yoshihisa Aono/aono@cybozu

Because the response from outside the company to Cybozu's decision to recruit internally for the board of directors has been greater than expected, I have summarized the background in a NOTE.

• Thus, directors were recruited from within the company.

Kentaro Sakamoto, Overseas SaaS Cybozu

Here's some background on this internal call for board members and the 17 that were approved~.

• Isn't "All directors are directors even though the company is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange" indeed absurd?　I asked the vice president a question | Cybozu Style

• Please refer to this area as well!

• "Men and women are one of the labels" Cybozu's Aono's diversity theory：The Asahi Shimbun Digital

Shuichiro Fukazawa @cybozu

What Cybozu wants to do is to prove that with thorough information sharing using groupware, corporate governance can be effective even without the function of directors.

And we are working on it because we believe it will make us more productive and our employees happier.

Consider the response to Cybozu's "internal recruitment of board members"｜Community for Management in the Age of Remote Work｜note

• A good organization. He pointed out that the word "director" in the world often means one of the following two things, but not for Cybozu's publicly recruited directors.

• ① Directors as experts in management skills

• 2. Directors as Elders in the Internal Order

Concerns about decision-making delays and bias due to more directors

• In this regard, Cybozu's culture is not "quit because it's risky," but "[If you try it and the problem becomes apparent, you can stop.
  • Related: Elimination of managers.
• Personally, I'm of the school of thought that it's a great buzz in the world, but it's not the type of experiment that can do much damage to a business, so it's low risk and why not give it a try?
  • The benefits are not so clear-cut, either.

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