Nemawashi Deficit

Description

John Thackara:

“We overlook the extent to which needed appications give meaning and zest to our work. Without shared purposes, and moral meanings, we risk drifting into a culture of self-absorption and narcissism.”

In Japan they call this call the nemawashi factor. Originally a horticultural word that means ‘to turn the roots’, prior to replanting – or, by implication, ‘laying the groundwork’ – nemawashi has come to mean the process by which groups in Japan develop the shared understanding without which nothing much gets done.

Too much of the design we now do suffers from a nemawashi-deficit. Fixated on abstractions and tools, we lose touch with the connections between people in the world, and the values we have in common, that provide the meanings that impel us to work."

(https://thackara.com/commoning/the-thermodynamics-of-cooperation-2/)

Source

* Article: The thermodynamics of cooperation. John Thackara.

URL = https://thackara.com/commoning/the-thermodynamics-of-cooperation-2/