ゲストスピーカー
昨夜、ひょんな事からダイヤモンド経営者倶楽部の分科会で話をすることになった。「探偵業について何か話しをして欲しい・・・持ち時間は1時間」とのこと。年齢と共に人前で話す機会は増えてはいるが、ダイヤモンド経営者倶楽部と云えば相当な会社の社長さんばかり、しかもリーガロイヤルホテルでである。
「虚心平気」を座右の銘とする小生ではあるが、緊張は隠せない。それでも席についてしまえば、えーいママよ、と腹は据わる。
そうそうたる社長さんを前に、調査業の現状と、採用調査を否定的にみる厚生労働省への不満をぶつけ、京都の病院で起こった爪はがし事件や栃木での小学生の集団登校にクレーン車が突っ込み、多くの幼い子供の命をうばった事件など、事前に採用調査さえ実施していれば未然に防げたことを、声を大にして訴えた・・。
久々に溜飲の下がる思いであった。
結構真剣な面持ちだね？、やはり大分緊張していたのかな・・・。
話はコロッと変わるが、今週、日・月と一泊２日で中学の同級生とゴルフコンペを楽しんだ。このコンペ、42歳の厄年にはじめ、年2回開催で既に４８回を数える。小生は一度も休まず皆出席であるが、よる年波には勝てぬというか、当初は3組12名の参加があったが、今や２組をつくるのがやっと。ただ幾ら少なくなってもこんな気のおけないコンペは止めるわけにはいかない。少なくとも後10年は続けたいものだ・・・
今回は神戸フラワーパークで宿泊。タイミングよく「神戸 光の祭典、イルミナージュ」の開催中で、ホテルの窓から携帯でパチリ・・・。
Last night, by a stroke of fate, I had the privilege of speaking at a subcommittee of the Diamond Management Club. “I need you to tell me something about the detective business … you’ll have an hour. As I get older, I have more opportunities to speak in public, but when I think of the Diamond Management Club, they are all presidents of major companies, and they are all at the Rihga Royal Hotel.
My motto is “I’m not afraid of my own mind,” but I can’t hide my nervousness.
In front of so many presidents, I expressed my dissatisfaction with the current state of the research industry and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s negative view of hiring surveys, and appealed loudly for the fact that these incidents could have been prevented if only hiring surveys had been conducted in advance.
It was a sobering thought for the first time in a long time.
You’re looking pretty serious, aren’t you? I guess I was a bit nervous after all…
On a different note, I enjoyed a golf competition with my junior high school classmates this week for two days and one night on Sunday and Monday. This competition has been held twice a year and has already been held 48 times since I was 42 years old. I never took a break and everyone attended, but it was no match for the new year’s wave. Initially, there were three groups of 12 participants, but now we can barely make two groups. However, no matter how small the number is, we can’t stop such an uncomfortable competition. I’d like to do this for at least another 10 years…
This time, we stayed at Kobe Flower Park. It was well timed that “Kobe Light Festival, Illuminage” was being held, and I took a picture with my cell phone from the hotel window.
