Listening summary The audio talks about the experience of Kaneko Takuya on decision-making who works in a global electronics company. In his point of view, the decision-making is a slow process and it needs to be accelerated; so, the key is that if you make quickly decisions, you will have a competitive advantage. But when a company accelerates the things to reduce time creates pressure on workers and it’s a hard target. In Kaneko’s enterprise, decisions follow a bottom up process. Firstly, there is a creative process to found new ideas. Then, they are checked in different management levels. Kaneko thinks that Japan’s companies take more time to take a direction. So, he proposes an agreement style which collect individual ideas and all departments work together. Also, he thinks that distance is a problem on decision-makings because it is less efficient. When you talk face to face it’s easy to understand each other and there is a connexion between people. But if you speak with somebody by telephone, it’s more common misunderstandings and you will need more meetings to take a decision. For all this, in this last case, he prefers concrete a 1st meeting to connect emotionally. He wants to decide quickly because problems appears at any time.