Andrew Gallimore

So they just get a lot of it like, yes, man.

Yes, I agree.

Yes, I agree with that.

You're kind of agreeing with everything that the senior person says.

And that's not a way to make good decisions is by just agreeing.

And so they have something called non-munication.

So this is formed from two words, communication, of course, plus nomu, which is the Japanese word to drink.

And they're talking about alcohol.

So in Japan, alcohol is king.

And society is actually lubricated by alcohol and functions because of alcohol.

They have things called in Japan,

In Japanese companies, they have these kind of semi-obligatory, semi-compulsory events called nomikai, which basically translates as drink meetings.

You might have heard about these.

And then basically the senior people and the more junior people, they all go together.

They'll go to a bar.

with the express purpose of getting drunk.

Not just to have a drink with your colleagues, but to actually get drunk, become intoxicated.

And that allows more free-flowing communication.

It allows you to... Everyone is brought to the same kind of level.

This is non-communication.