Last month, I published a column criticizing the senior members of the town association's governing body( though I am also a senior)

A neighborhood association demonstrates a dreadful "backwardness" ("conservativeness" is far from complete) by being managed by a person (senior) who has attachment (local love) in the area.

I think, that the neighborhood association is

"One form of autonomous organization acting on behalf of administrative services in town"

and

"It should be run as the bureaucracy without emotions"

and

"If we can handle the same task, we can do it as easily as possible"

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However, seniors who believe in local love, have made their neighborhood association alive,

- they believe that the current management methods are the best,

In addition to that, they resist with a tremendous momentum,

- new methods (administration by e-mail, web, etc.), that can not be understood by themselves

The reason is simple.

-When such things come in, "the senior who overflows with local love" is the first target to be excluded from the neighborhood association

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While I was a member of the neighborhood association, I managed to do my own job without getting the approval of the seniors about the work in my department (Press Department).

My achievements were as follows.

- The number of meetings is zero

All works requests were directed by email, and follow-up was also emailed.

- Total number of working hours of members within one hour a year

I asked them to submit "covering is within 15 minutes, 3 photos or so, articles within 5 lines" by e-mail, and I was in charge of all the proofreading of sentences.

- Complete manual

All possible questions were in the manual, placed on the web page. If asking a question, I indicated the link.

- Most of the work ends on the commuter train

With a note-PCr, I made newsletters for the neighborhood association several times a year and posted Web news.

I had the hypothesis that,

"If we can use the techniques (IT) commonly used in current Japanese offices as a basis, the load on the current association can be reduced to less than 1/10."

And this time, I'm proud that I showed that hypothesis is "true".

(To be continued)