To challenge the status quo, find a "co-conspirator" | Ipsita Dasgupta

Translator: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez

翻訳: Hiroshi Uchiyama 校正: Masako Kigami

So I've been thinking about how to explain this concept to you,

この概念をどのように伝えたらよいか ずっと考えてきたのですが

and I've decided I'm just going to start with something we all understand.

誰もが知っていることから 始めようと決めました

To achieve great heights or change the world,

大きな成功を収めたり 世界を変えたりするには

no matter how smart we are, we all need people.

自分がどれだけ賢くても 私たちには人材が必要です

And for conventional people,

そして型に嵌った人には

the universe seems to conspire to make them successful.

宇宙が彼らを成功に 導いてくれるように見えます

For the unconventional,

型に嵌っていない人には

I think we need something that I like to call "co-conspirators."

「共謀者」とでも言うべき 誰かが必要だと思うのです

Co-conspirators are different not because they're different themselves,

共謀者が一人ひとり違うのは 彼ら自身が違っているからではなく

but because of the people who need them.

共謀者を求める人によるからです

They tend to be people who are willing to bend the rules --

彼らはルールを曲げようとしがちで

actually even break them sometimes --

時に実際に破ることもありますが

and challenge the status quo

現状に異議を唱え

to stand beside someone who is going against societal norms.

社会常識に反抗する誰かの傍らに立つ人です

I'm actually going to describe an experience that I had

最初に共謀者のアイデアが心に浮かび

that first crystallized the idea of co-conspirators in my mind.

具体化したときのお話をしましょう

In 2014,

2014年のこと

I was a corporate executive with an American multinational in India,

私はインドにある アメリカの多国籍企業で役員をしていました

and we were actually faced with an interesting problem:

その頃 私たちの関心を引く 問題がありました

we didn't have enough women in the workforce.

職場に女性が少なかったのです

And just to give you some context,

状況を説明すると

27 percent of women work in India.

インドでの女性の就労率は27%でした

If you look at most of Asia,

アジアの大部分では

that number is around 48 percent.

およそ48%だった頃です

So we knew the numbers were deplorable,

嘆かわしい数字であることは明らかで

and it was manifesting itself in our own organization.

私たちの会社にも それが表れていました

So we decided -- actually, I'll just give you a quick example

手短に事例を紹介します

of a young engineer, a 25-year-old woman,

25歳の若手女性技術者の

who told us a great story about her daily life,

日常生活で起こった素晴らしい出来事を

to just exemplify it for us.

例に取ります

She said, "As I walk out of the house in the morning,

彼女によると 「朝 私が家から出かけようと

I am running around doing a bunch of chores,

多くの家事をこなしながら走り回ると

and my mother-in-law -- I live with my in-laws --

同居の義理の母が

is starting to get a little bit irritated,

家事を押し付けられると思って

because she's going to be left with all the housework to do.

少しイライラし始めます

And then, as I get back home in the evening,

そして夕方 私が家に戻るとき

I've overshot the time I'm going to be home by an hour or two at least,

予定より数時間遅れると

and by then, two of my biggest champions,

私の最大の理解者である

my father-in-law and my husband,

義理の父と夫も

are also starting to get a little bit irritated.

少しイライラしています

And my mother-in-law is furious, because she's taken care of everything

義理の母は家事をすべて しなくてはいけなかったと

that needs to be done.

激怒します

And through the middle of the day,

日中は

I'm actually surrounded by men my age,

同世代の男性に囲まれていますが

and there's only one expectation from them by society.

社会が男性に期待するのは唯一

It's to achieve in their careers

キャリアを重ねて

and provide for their families financially.

家計を支えることです

How do you expect me to bring this same level of enthusiasm,

私が同じレベルの熱意 興奮 情熱を

excitement and passion to the workplace?"

職場で持っていられると思いますか？」

And she was right.

正論です

And I thought the women's network volunteers

そこから ウィメンズ・ネットワークの ボランティアは 素晴らしい企画を

came up with a great idea.

思いついたのでしょう

They instituted a "bring your mother-in-law to work" day.

こうして「義理の母のための 職場見学会」が始まりました

So we heralded a group of mothers-in-law

義母にまじって母親もいましたが

and a few mothers into the office,

会社に招いて

and we took them to our R and D labs.

研究開発のラボを案内しました

We took them to the medical equipment

そして義理の娘たちが

that their daughters-in-law were creating and building.

開発 製造を手がけている 医療機器を見てもらい

And as we did, we described to them what their daughters-in-law actually did:

仕事内容を説明しました

they impacted maternal mortality rates and infant mortality rates.

妊産婦死亡率や 乳児死亡率を左右する仕事で

They brought them down.

死亡率を下げていました

They identified complex diseases

複合疾患をかなり早期に発見することで

early enough to be able to prevent and cure them.

予防や治癒を可能にしていました

And then we took them to lunch.

それから ランチに案内しました

We gave them a lavish lunch and thanked them for the role they played

豪華なランチを用意し 感謝の意を伝えました

for freeing up a young woman to work shoulder to shoulder with us

若い女性が家庭の外に出て 私たちと共に世界を変える仕事をするために

to literally change the world.

家庭を支えてくれることへの感謝です

There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

その部屋の誰もが目頭を熱くしました

Every one of these women were grateful and proud.

その部屋の女性一人ひとりが 感謝と誇らしさを感じていました

They were proud of who their daughters-in-law were,

皆 義理の娘たちの人となりを誇りに思い

but they were grateful to be included as part of the conversation.

話が聞けたことにも感謝していました

And I wondered at the time

その時は

whether what we'd done was just a great touchy-feely moment

その企画はとても感動的であり

and was cute

素敵ではありましたが

but really wasn't going to have long-term impact.

長期的な効果は見込めないと 思っていました

And a couple of days later, one of my mentees swung by my office,

数日後 私が指導している女性が 私の所に立ち寄り

and she was super excited.

かなり興奮しながら言いました

She said, "I went home from work yesterday,

「昨日 職場から帰宅すると

and I was bracing myself, because I was really late,

かなり遅かったこともあり 心の準備をしていました

and I was bracing myself for a lecture,

小言を言われると思っていました

and my mother-in-law turned to my husband and said,

すると義理の母が夫に向かって言うのです

'Can you please get up and make her a cup of tea?

『あなたがお茶をいれてあげなさいよ

She's exhausted.

命を預かる仕事をして

She's saving lives. You work at a bank.'"

疲れ切ってるわ 銀行勤めと違うのよ』」

(Laughter)

（笑）

And there you had it.

この時 手に入れたのが

You had the perfect co-conspirator,

完璧な「共謀者」です

someone that we don't always recognize or value,

常に 存在に気付いたり 大切にしたりは していなくても

but was changing the way somebody else could challenge the status quo,

そばにいて 現状への挑み方に

by standing beside her

変化を与える存在であり

and questioning the societal norms

社会の規範に疑問を呈して

and making a difference.

変化を起こす存在です

The next example I'm going to use will be closer to almost everyone in this room.

次の例は この会場におられる 大半の方には身近なものです

When I graduated from business school and started working in a company,

私が大学院を卒業して 企業に就職した時

a group of us, my peers and I, were asked to work on a strategy

私たち若手は 過去10年以上不振で

for a business that hadn't been doing too well over the last decade

誰も歯牙にもかけない事業の戦略を

and was being neglected.

立てることになりました

We put our hearts and souls into it,

全身全霊をかけて打ち込みました

and we did a lot of analysis on our nights and weekends

夜遅くまで 休日も返上して分析を重ね

and put together what we thought was a good strategy.

優れた戦略を練り上げました

And after presenting it to a number of people

多くの社員の前でプレゼンした後

that we were getting buy-in with,

賛同を取り付け

we were actually asked to present to the global CEO

１週間開催される年次戦略会議で

at his annual strategy meet that happened over a week.

グローバルCEOに向けて プレゼンするように言われました

And we were both excited and apprehensive as we flew into headquarters.

本社に飛んだ時は 興奮と不安が入り混じっていました

We were excited because this was an opportunity

学んできたことを発表できる

to show how much we had learned.

晴れ舞台でしたので興奮しました

But we were also nervous because, though a brilliant, dynamic man,

一方で緊張もしました なぜなら CEOは頭がよく行動的な反面

he had a fiery temper and wasn't really the easiest person to present to.

気性が激しいので 面前でのプレゼンは大変だったからです

Five or six hours before our presentation, a senior colleague pulled us aside

プレゼンの５〜６時間前に 先輩が私たちを呼び出して座り

and sat down and gave us a front-seat view of what had happened all week.

１週間の出来事を教えてくれました

We knew about people who had bombed their presentations.

プレゼンに失敗した人や

We knew about people who had almost been instantaneously promoted in the room.

その場で即 昇進を決めた人

We knew what was keeping the CEO up at night

CEOが何を目指して 夜遅くまで働いているか

and what he thought were tailwinds to the business.

何を事業の追い風と考えているかも 知りました

And when we walked into that presentation later in the day,

その日の午後 私たちはプレゼンをして

we actually got buy-in with both the CEO

CEOと上級役員から

and his senior staff.

支持を得られたのです

And it wasn't just because of our analysis or our strategy.

分析や戦略だけで この成果を上げた訳ではありません

It was because we were prepped

役員陣が受け入れやすい形で

to be able to communicate in a way that the team could absorb.

伝えられるように 準備ができていたからです

Now, this senior colleague of ours didn't pull us aside,

例の先輩は噂話をしたくて 私たちを呼び出したのではありません

because he wanted to gossip.

He pulled us aside because he believed we were unconventional in the boardroom.

取締役会で 私たちが型に嵌まっていないと 信じたから呼び出したのです

That unconventionality was exactly why he wanted us to think about

型に嵌まっていなかったから この斬新な視点について

this new, fresh perspective

考えさせたかったのであり

and provide a view on where this business should go.

この事業の進め方について 視野を提供させようとしたのです

But he also knew it was a distinct disadvantage for us,

しかし 彼には弱点も見えていました

because we didn't know how to present in that room,

私たちは取締役会での プレゼンの仕方も知らず

and we hadn't done it before,

経験もありませんでした

and they weren't used to receiving us.

役員も新人の受け入れに 慣れていませんでした

And that again is an example, in my mind,

そして 私が思うにこれが

of somebody bending the rules.

ルールを曲げる人の良い例なのです

Because he decided to co-conspire with us,

彼は私たちと共謀することを決心し

he not only changed the career trajectories

会社内で突如知名度を上げた

of six young people in the organization who suddenly got all this visibility,

６人の若者のキャリアの軌道を 変えただけでなく

but he actually changed the trajectory of a business

人びとが目を背け 斬新なアイデアを持ちえなかった

that people were neglecting and didn't have any fresh ideas for.

事業の軌道を実際に変えました

The last example I want to share with you

そして皆さんにお話ししたい

is actually very far removed from the corporate world

最後の例は 企業の世界から遠く離れた

and somewhat personal.

いくぶん個人的な

This is the story of my mother.

私の母の話です

In her early 20s, she lost her father.

母は20歳前半で父親を亡くしました

He had passed away in his late 40s,

父親は40歳代後半で他界し

leaving behind six children,

後には子ども６人―

four younger siblings and one older sibling than her,

姉、母、年下のきょうだい４人と

and a widowed mother who had never worked.

働いたことのない 未亡人となった母親が残されました

My mom and her older sister realized

母と姉は生活のために

that they actually needed to start earning an income --

働かなくてはなりませんでした

they were both in grad school --

２人とも大学院生でしたが

to ensure the rest of the siblings could get through their schooling

下の子がきちんと 学校を卒業できるように

and start to work.

仕事を始めました

So she shifted her law school classes to evening classes,

そこで母は夜間の法科大学院へ移籍し

and she started to work during the day as a schoolteacher

収入を得るために日中は教師として

to bring home an income.

働きました

And every day, she would actually get off a bus

毎晩 夜間の授業を終えて

at the end of her evening law school classes

カルカッタの街で

on the streets of Calcutta.

バスを降りました

Now, mind you,

念のために言いますが

this is a woman who wasn't used to taking public transportation at all,

母は公共交通機関など 利用したことなどなく

夜になどなおさらです

let alone at night.

And as she would get off the bus,

バスから降りると

she would take about a seven- to eight-minute walk to her home

バス停から自宅まで７～８分かけて

from the bus stop

on a street that was largely deserted,

人通りがまばらな住宅街を

because it was a residential street

徒歩で帰宅しました

with some shops that closed around 8pm or a little bit before that.

店は夜８時前くらいには閉まっていました

One day, a store owner was closing his store a little bit later than usual,

ある日 商店主がいつもより遅く 店を閉めようとしていました

because there was a customer who had actually left a little bit later.

少し遅い時間まで客がいたのです

And he saw my mother get off the bus.

母がバスから降りるのが見えました

He waited for her.

彼は母を待ちました

He actually knew the family.

実は母の一家を知っていたのです

The store had been in the neighborhood for more than 20 years,

近所で20年以上商売をしていたので

so he knew her since she was a baby.

母を赤ちゃんの頃から知っていたのです

He watched her walk to the street that her house was on,

商店主は 母が自宅のある通りを 歩いているのを見た後

turned off the lights, shut the store and went home.

明かりを消して店を閉め 帰宅しました

From the next day, he found that he waited for her every single day

次の日からくる日もくる日も 母が帰宅するまで

until he she made her way to her own house.

自分が待っていることに 商店主は気付きました

Other store owners on that same street suddenly noticed this one store

同じ商店街の店主たちは この店だけが

that was open longer,

遅くまで開けており

and suddenly started to see a bunch of end-of-day customers walk in

閉店間際に 客がたくさん来て

to buy odds and ends that,

ちょっとしたものを

from after their long day from work and their commute home,

仕事帰りに買って帰るのに 気付きました

realized they hadn't picked up for the next morning.

しかも 翌朝ならきっと 買わなかったような商品です

Some people who came in the mornings also started to come the night before.

午前中に買い物に来た客の一部も 夜に来るようになりました

A few of the storekeepers decided that actually what was happening

この店主が客を 独り占めしていると考えた

was he was monopolizing a bunch of customers,

数名の商店主が

and they started to keep their store lights on

明かりを消さずに

and keep their shop open till 9 o'clock.

夜９時まで営業することしました

From that time on, my mother had a lit street

それ以来 母は明るい賑わう通りを歩いて

with plenty of activity on the street.

帰宅できるようになりました

I believe that that store owner was my mother's co-conspirator.

私は最初の商店主は 母の共謀者であったと信じます

Because of him,

彼によって

a small change to what was conventional on that street at the time

当時の商店街では当たり前だったことに 小さな変化が生じたことで

allowed for her and her family

母たち家族は

to do something that was completely unconventional.

型に嵌らず 行動できるようになりました

A woman her age from an upper-middle-class family

中流上層家庭の出身で 母くらい年齢の女性は

actually got married at that age

その年齢で結婚するか

or studied in grad school with the protection of their family.

家族の庇護のもとで 大学院に通うのが普通でした

Because of that store owner,

でも その商店主のおかげで

all of my mother's siblings went on to become engineers,

残された子どもは技術者や弁護士

lawyers, accountants and teachers,

会計士や教師になる道を進み

and my mother went on to become a lawyer.

母は弁護士になりました

The world needs co-conspirators.

世界は共謀者を必要としています

問題がどんどん複雑になり 解決策を次々と見つける必要がある

As we get into a complex environment where more and more complex problems exist

and we need to find more solutions,

複雑な環境になっていくにつれて

we need unconventional people in our boardrooms and at the table.

取締役会でも会議でも 型に嵌らない人材が必要になります

For that to happen,

それが実現するには

we need co-conspirators.

共謀者が必要です

In my own life,

私は人生で

whether it's because of my gender,

自分の性別や

my ethnicity or sometimes,

民族性や時には

as I've been living in this part of the world for over a decade, my accent,

十年来暮らした土地の訛りによって

I'm often perceived to be unconventional.

自分が型に嵌っていないことを しばしば実感します

It's my co-conspirators that have shown me the path forward,

そして 共謀者こそ 私に進むべき道を示す存在であり

and actually, it's my co-conspirators that keep me seeking out

共謀者のおかげで 私は 型に嵌らない道を

the unconventional paths to go down.

模索し続けることができます

So what I'd like to ask of all of you today

ですから 今日皆さんに お願いします

is that you look around and find the people

周りを見回して共謀したいと思う人を

that inspire you to co-conspire.

見つけてください

I promise you that your empathy

あなたの共感と勇気は

and your courage

きっと誰かの人生を 変えるでしょう

will change someone's life

and may even change the world.

そして世界を変えるかも しれないのです

Thank you.

ありがとうございました

(Applause)

（拍手）