Business Karaoke: Martial Arts Principles that Inspired this People Driven Business In this episode, founder and CEO of Zensho Robin Doenicke, talks to Business Karaoke host Brittany Arthur about his paradigm-changing ‘blue ocean’ platform that liberates and rewards recruitment professionals to a degree previously unseen. What Robin calls, “being in business for yourself but not …
How Robin Doenicke Is Leading His Recruitment Agency to 10X Growth in Just 3 Years It isn’t very common for a recruitment agency to hit a plateau and then grow beyond that plateau years later – but that’s exactly what happened when Robin Doenicke implemented a new business model for his agency. His recruitment company …
Robin Doenicke on how a partial lockdown in Japan kept the market moving In this episode we talked about how the coronavirus has impacted Japan, and how they have not seen the full scale lock down. Robin’s business has had to adapt to the change however being an agency with an alternative model of self …
Years from now, you may not remember the particulars of deals you closed at Zensho (or what the returns were). You will remember your colleagues and how it felt to work with them. The imprint you left on the world.
We invited you to join our tribe because you impressed us as someone who shares values intrinsic to our culture. But just to ensure we’re totally on the same page, here they are, spelled out in black and white and trimmed in our corporate colors.
Freedom is Zensho’s central pillar. Beyond the mere state of being free, for us the word carries with it a sense of obligation: “Freedom to…” What follows should define you as a person. Of course, to provide your business community with amazing service, but also to engage and give back to the world. And that’s where Autonomy comes in. Unlike the general implications of self-rule, ours leads not to detachment but to a broad and radical sense of interconnectivity. One that enables each of us to commune with others in infinite ways. Together, these two values empower you like nothing else on earth, and they’re here waiting for you.
So, what do we ask in return?
Transparency means not only having open books, but being one yourself. No secrets or ulterior agendas. It is to share personal and industry information without seeking to leverage it for profit or motivate others in any way. Its cousin, Clarity, is about including precision and context in the communication process. At Zensho, we always try to anticipate the details a fellow partner might need and supply them up front.
Which leads us to…
Collaboration. That is, to cooperate meaningfully. Because only through recognizing individual strengths can we thrive as a whole. For us, collaboration requires presence as we listen and respond, evolving toward a collective goal represented by the name of our charity initiative: Ayni (reciprocity). This can’t exist without Collegiality. How we care for each other and the tribe as a whole, share both opportunity and responsibility with open hearts – that’s what empowers us to excel as a firm.
With these six in place, our seventh value happens all by itself.
Harmony. When your environment manifests balance between all people and things – even forces that oppose each other – life just flows. Living completely becomes a state of being. After all, that’s the very meaning of Zensho.