How can my husband be a respected CEO?

Among Seiwajuku workshops, there was a Q&A session.

During the session, Anny, a wife of a company CEO, asked Inamori , “Mr. Inamori, as you have encouraged members to have their employees respect them. Could you please advise my husband how he could get such a respect from our staff?”

Inamori was thinking for about thirty seconds and said to Anny,

“Anny, first of all, you should be the one who most respects your husband.”

This episode implies important tips on how a woman can support her husband.

The tips are as follows.

1 Demonstrate her respect

2 Listen to her husband

3 Advise him

4 Trust him

Let me explain one by one.

1 Demonstrate her respect

Inamori always mentioned that company presidents, CEOs, regardless of their business sizes, have been doing a sort of altruism practice. Thus, they can be proud of themselves as they support the families of employees.

Wives understand this and always tell their husbands that they are doing a good thing, thus they respect their husband. Not only the moment when they are only themselves, (spouses) but also when husband is in front of his staff, the wife needs to show her respect and try to have a good relationship with him.

2 Listen to her husband

Anny said, different from other groups of business leaders, Seiwajuku and Inamori are different. Especially, Inamori spent some time listening to my husband, then he gave his advice to my husband. My husband found Inamori’s attitude to be sincere and humble. I am sure he was very much delighted. Other business leaders or lecturers have never spent time like that. They always end up telling, “Ultimately this totally depends on your decision.”

Inamori has also demonstrated to Anny how to listen to her husband. What Anny found from her husband’s episode is exactly the manual which can be applied to her when she thinks about how to support her husband.

Listening to her husband with full concentration and sincerity would work for her husband to get respect from his staff.

3 Advise him

“Giving a constructive advice is very important to develop a relationship with your staff”, Inamori always reiterates this to Seiwajuku members. He continues. “Spoiling them or compromising toward them looks easy but please think about the consequences and the future. Your staff need to become entrepreneurs with critical thinking skills. Thus, in that sense, they need to experience a sort of hardship and difficulties.”

Wives don’t have any responsibility to provide any “exposure” to their husbands, however, their roles would be somehow like mothers. Pushing their husbands to achieve their goals as high as possible.

4 Trust him

In Kyocera philosophy, there is a phrase: “Believe in the infinite capability of human beings.” Probably, wives should be the ones who trust their husbands’ potential. Anny also mentioned in her speech: My husband, even though he has been managing a small company, is about to get into a much higher stage as an entrepreneur.

There are basically many other tips for a wife to be aware of in order to support her husband, who is a business leader of a company. However, as Inamori reiterated, the most important things are remaining humble, respecting the husband, while trusting and listening to him.

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