We invited Lecturer Ueda of Sanoyas Holdings Corporation to lecture our introductory Business Administration

Business Administration The purpose of the introductory course is to enable management organizations called companies and companies to identify "opportunities" and "threats" in the ever-changing environment and to think about how they are trying to adapt to the ever-changing environment in a theoretical and practical way by applying Business Administration knowledge. In the class on Monday, October 27, we invited Chairman Ueda of Sanoyasu Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Sanoyasu) as a Lecturer to give a lecture on "Corporate Management Theory" and "Leadership Theory". Chairman Ueda is currently the chairman of Sumitomo Bank (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) Managing Director after serving as executive officer at the Osaka head office sales Director General and then as president of Akimasa Sanoyasu Hishino (which later became a holding company and was reorganized into Sanoyasu Holdings).
Sanoyasu is a long-established medium-sized listed company with a 115-year history in the shipbuilding industry, but in 2021, it made a major management decision to effectively withdraw from the shipbuilding business, whose profits deteriorated due to the Lehman shock and the rise of China and South Korea. Chairman Ueda was appointed as the president of the company at the time.
In the lecture, first of all, after watching the beginning of a TV program called "Kansai Leader Retsuden" in which Chairman Ueda appeared, and learning the outline of Sanoyasu, Chairman Ueda's keywords of corporate management "two frogs (return to the origin) and (change of thinking)", "the era of three nos (the era of opacity, uncertainty, and normalization of change)", "management that emphasizes human resources (people are assets)", "good management in all directions (customers, "Good company for partner companies, society and the future, and employees". In particular, the explanation that shareholders are not included in the "four directions" is impressive because practicing "four-way good management" can improve corporate performance and reward shareholders in the form of dividends.
In the next leadership theory, it is important to have "VSOP (vitality, speciality, originality, personality)", and the Analects of Confucius's "aspire to study at fifteen", that is, from the age of 15 to about 30, it is important to learn from various experiences in relationships with various people. I received encouragement that the four years of university were a unique opportunity to put that into practice.
Finally, when we asked President Ueda about his experience of "Yusaburu Sasaru Heartbeating" from President Hirano, comparing it to the university's brand message "Yusaburu Sasaru Heartbeating", he shared an episode of his struggles when he studied abroad at a Swiss university while working at a bank, and said that the lessons he learned from it were "to have your own opinions" and "to find yourself". For the students, this lecture was a valuable opportunity to hear the lived stories of corporate managers who have overcome various hardships at a financial and heavy machinery manufacturer for more than 40 years.

<Source: School Public Relations>