What do you work for?No. 17

Designing a Company on the Five Elements

Our group is designed on the five elements of Eastern philosophy — wood, fire, water, metal, earth.

Wood (INSTINCT BROTHERS) grows products and brands; fire (INSTINCT RAS) ignites talent; water (HIROKI GLOBAL) carries trusted materials from around the world; metal (ARTISANS PRODUCTION) transforms materials into products; and the earth — our holding company — supports them all. Why?

Standard org charts describe functions; I wanted to design the company as a living organism, where each element generates the next and the whole circulates. Old philosophies survive not because they are old, but because they work.

What do you work for?

— Tomoki Nagano, Chairman & CEO, INSTINCT BIO TECHNICAL COMPANY (NASDAQ: BIOT)

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