Dr. Yukio Ishizuka has made numerous television appearances as a psychiatric expert on major networks such as NBC, NHK (Japan), Fuji-Television (Japan), TV Asahi (Japan), and Antenne 2 (France).  Newspaper and magazine articles featuring Dr. Ishizuka and his work with Lifetrack have been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, USA Today, Reader’s Digest, Psychiatric News, L’Express (France), Voice (Japan), and Nikkei Business (Japan).  His first book, Self-Actualization (Kodansha Tokyo, 1982), sold over 45,000 copies in Japan.  The book was reprinted nine times.

Dr. Ishizuka has presented models of individual and organizational health with diverse organizations including AT&T and IBM as well as many Japanese, American, and European elite CEOs.  He is the founder of Japan International Students Association, the recipient of the coveted Japanese Health Culture Award in 2007 by the Minister of Japanese Health at the Japanese Imperial Palace.

Interview or Article

If you would like to contact Dr. Yukio Ishizuka for an interview for Lifetrack Positive Mental Health call 914.967.6210 (New York, USA time).

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In this domain, the models of individual, organizational, and national health can be interesting, however, perhaps the most interesting question is not how the state is like a person, but how does a model of human nature affect a model of the state.

If we apply the assumption of fear as we have done to economics to the political domain, there are interesting implications on movements towards political integration and dis-integration and of national identity as well as of trading blocks. Institutional checks and balances provided by international organizations such as the UN, WTO, that could serve to relieve fear are worthy of study.

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Additional Reading on Models of Health and Psychology:

Ishizuka, Nathalie, “Constitutional Cover? Collective Security: U.N. Obligations vs. Japanese Constitutional Restraints,” Amherst College, Bachelors Thesis, summa cum laude, 1992. Copy requested for U.N. Library. (240 pages) Comments by Colonel Kades, Founder of Japanese 1946 Constitution.

Ishizuka, Nathalie, “The United Nations as a Crisis Manager: Lessons from Preventive Mental Health to Preventive Diplomacy,” U.N. University, Eisaku Sato Memorial Foundation Award for Essay, 1996. Longer Report Submitted to Kofi Annan and Boutros Boutros-Ghali.

Ishizuka, Nathalie, “Is GATT a ‘Good’ Psychiatrist?: Building a Multilateral Framework,” Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Masters Thesis, December 1995. Comments by Arthur Dunkel, former Head of GATT (now WTO).

Editors and Journals

If an editor is interested in a chapter for book format, or journal form, please notify the author. If you have a syllabus with assumptions about healthy human beings applied to organizations, economics, negotiation, political science or other fields please contact Nathalie Ishizuka through the Positive Mental Health Foundation Contact Form. She is interested in collecting these for future use and sharing.

A Need for Models based on Healthy Human Beings

Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings.  Read section a Science of Health (life way), Criteria for Health Models (science of happiness), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (cycle of life),  Happier? (fear of the unknown),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (objective subjective), and Insights (life purpose).

Visit http://www.PositiveMentalHealthFoundation.com to understand individuals at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.

Ready Made Descriptions to Link to Organizational and International Behavior:

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Ishizuka, Yukio. “In Search of Excellence and Well-Being” Presentation of Lifetrack to 30 faculty and counseling staff at West Point, 1985 (2 hours)

For More on a Psychology of Health and Organizational, National or International Behavior See:

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A Need for Models of Healthy Human Beings

Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings.  Read section a Science of Health (life way), Criteria for Health Models (science of happiness), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (cycle of life),  Happier? (fear of the unknown),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (objective subjective), and Insights (life purpose).

Visit http://www.PositiveMentalHealthFoundation.com to understand individuals at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.

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Ishizuka, Nathalie, “Lifetrack Assumptions about Conflict Resolution and Third Party Intervention: A Case Study of Kissinger in the Middle East,” Published as Working Paper, Harvard Law Program on Negotiation, July 1995.

Ishizuka, Nathalie, “Negotiation Workshops Between Hostile Parties: Should one include a presentation on individual optimal adjustment in international negotiation workshops?” submitted to Harvard Law Program on Negotiation, September 1997.

Editors and Journals

If an editor is interested in a chapter for book format, or journal form, please notify the author.  If you have a syllabus with assumptions about healthy human beings applied to organizations, economics, negotiation, political science or other fields please contact Nathalie Ishizuka through the Positive Mental Health Contact form.  She is interested in collecting these for future use and sharing.

A Need for Models of Healthy Human Beings

Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings.  Read section a Science of Health (life way), Criteria for Health Models (science of happiness), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (cycle of life),  Happier? (fear of the unknown),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (objective subjective), and Insights (life purpose).

Visit the Positive Mental Health Foundation to support a study of human beings at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.

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What are the basic assumptions about human beings in economics?   Are these assumptions based on healthy human beings?  If not, can they be fine-tuned?

Nathalie Ishizuka applies the assumption about human fear and how it affects optimal decision making to the 2009 Nobel laureate Olivier Williamson’s, Transaction Cost Economics.

Economics is Based on Simple Assumptions about Human Beings
Economic models are based on simple assumptions about human beings.

Whereas traditional economic man is considered as omniscient and able to take into account the consequences of all alternatives, transaction cost economics (TCE) incorporates an understanding about human beings or human costs that include Herbert Simon’s (Nobel Prize, 1978) cognitive assumption of “bounded rationality” (from the little we do know, we make the best decision), and Oliver Williamson’s (Nobel Prize, 2009) behavioral assumption of “opportunism” (suggesting that transactions and organizations benefit from safeguards and the aligning of incentives).

Adding an Assumption about Healthy Human Beings to Economics
The assumption by Simon and Williamson are useful to understanding economic costs.  However, human beings do not only think (cognitive assumption of TCE economics) and act (behavioral assumption of TCE economics), but also feel. The question then becomes what emotion influences the make or buy decision?

Adding Affect: Fear
Based on her understanding of healthy human beings from Dr. Yukio Ishizuka‘s model of human personality,  Nathalie Ishizuka adds a healthy assumption about human affect (fear) to the make or buy decision.  According to Nathalie Ishizuka, the human affect fear implies we are not only “limited cognitively,” but even when we do know the best decision–due to fear–we may not always chose it.

Fear and other Economic Theories
Nathalie Ishizuka hopes that the assumption fear will be included in transaction cost economics (in Ishizuka’s viewpoint one of the most formidable paradigms in economics and organization).  She also follows with interest the work of Agency Theory by Michael Jensen.  While important work on fear in small decisions (gambling) in economics is notable, Ishizuka is not talking about risk aversion, but about how fear can lead us not to act optimally even when we know what is best for us. It is this type of fear that can place the economic system at risk.  In the future Nathalie Ishizuka wishes to work on how fear varies, and identifying the factors that are responsible for this variation.

The ‘Psychological’ Make or Buy Decision,
Ishizuka, Nathalie, “The Psychological Make or Buy Decision: Psychology and Transaction Cost Economics,” paper presented at the Academy of Management, Boston, August 1997.

ABSTRACT
Transaction cost economics is integrated with cognitive and affective aspects of ownership and contract.  Integrating these distinct streams of literature leads to a more comprehensive view of the “make or buy” decision, describing not only how individuals behave, but also how they think and feel within alternative exchange relationships.

EXCERPT

TRANSACTION COSTS ANALYTICAL ASSUMPTIONS
Transaction costs or the “costs of running the economic system” (Arrow, 1969: 48) are ultimately about human costs.  Once one recognizes that firms are “legal fictions” that serve as a nexus of “contracting relationships among individuals,” (Jensen & Meckling, 1976: 311) then one must admit that transaction costs or agency costs are neither experienced by the market nor the firm in the abstract, but by individuals. The “friction in physical systems“  (Williamson, 1985: 19) that economists have baptized transaction costs are the equivalent of friction or stress created in the interaction of human beings with each other, with their environment and within themselves.  In this sense, agency costs and transaction costs are very much the same.   In a like manner, agency costs can be thought of as the equivalent of friction in “any situation involving cooperative effort by two or more people,” (Jensen and Meckling, 1976: 309) and can exist in the form of conflicts with oneself (Thaler and Shefrin, 1981).

Coase’s insights on individuals are consistent with this point.  Coase tells us that the choice of markets versus firms to organize transactions is the result of, “man as he is, acting within the constraints imposed by real institutions” (Coase, 1984: 231).  Williamson also concurs attributing transaction costs to “behavioral assumptions” of “bounded rationality” and “opportunism.” Although Williamson lumps these assumptions of “bounded rationality” and “opportunism” together as “behavioral assumptions,” or assumptions about how individuals act, bounded rationality is really a cognitive assumption or theory about the limits of the thought process.  Opportunism, on the other hand, is a behavioral assumption about the way individuals behave.

Bounded Rationally: The Cognitive Assumption of Transaction Cost Analysis
The idea of bounded rationality comes from Simon, who argued that human beings are “intendedly rational, but only limitedly so” (Simon, 1976: xxviii).   Whereas traditional economic man is considered as omniscient and able to take into account the consequences, probabilities and utilities of all alternatives, Simon argued that individuals are “limited in knowledge, foresight, skill and time” (Simon, 1957: 199).  The cognitive abilities of individuals are “bounded” in that they can only take in and make sense of a limited amount of information.  In terms of transaction cost analysis, cognitive limits have important implications for planning, adopting and monitoring exchange relationships.  To the extent that internalization can serve to reduce uncertainty and complexity (Williamson, 1975), one can successfully reduce transaction costs and economize on bounded rationality (Chiles and McMackin, 1996) .

Opportunism: The Behavioral Assumption of Transaction Cost Analysis
Opportunism is the behavioral attribute that underlies transaction cost analysis.  According to Williamson, opportunism is not just self-interested behavior, but  “self-interest seeking with guile“  (Williamson, 1985: 47).   Opportunism includes not only “subtle forms of deceit,” such as “incomplete or distorted disclosure of information, especially to calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse,” but also overt “lying, stealing, and cheating” (Williamson, 1985: 47).   This assumption about human beings is important because it suggests that transactions and organizations would benefit from safeguards and the aligning of incentives(Williamson, 1985: 48).   Ghoshal and Moran (1996) have argued that this behavioral assumption of opportunism is an overly pessimistic view of human nature.  They seem to have interpreted Williamson’s statement to mean that organizations exist solely because of their ability to attenuate opportunism through hierarchical control.   This is not Williamson’s central point.  Williamson is not assuming that all individuals act opportunistically, rather that without evidence to the contrary, the assumption of opportunism is reasonable.  Naturally, “rules” or hierarchical organization can at times serve to limit opportunism, however, if humans have the capacity to be opportunistic then opportunism will continue to exist both in the market and within the firm.  Williamson’s point then is not to remedy market failure with “benign forms of organization,” but rather to stress the importance of a comparative approach (Williamson, 1993a: 102). Ultimately, the existence and extent of opportunistic behavior by individuals and the degree to which it impacts internalization (Hill, 1990) is an empirical issue.

Affect:  The Missing Assumption in Transaction Cost Analysis
Adherents to the transaction cost view accept the assumptions of bounded rationality and opportunism as descriptions of the way human beings think and act in make or buy decisions.  These simple assumptions distinguish transaction cost economics from classical economics, which does not recognize the “psychological make-up” of individuals. Classical economics limits itself to the constraints that are external to the individual and to the organization, such as technology and the interests of individuals who depart from one’s own (Simon, 1957: 199).  By embracing more realistic cognitive and behavioral assumptions about individuals, transaction cost economics provides strategic management with a perspective that connects the individual actor with its larger institutional structure.

What remains surprising, however, is that transaction cost economics has yet to make explicit affective assumptions about human actors that may influence the make or buy decision.  Just as Simon and Williamson made assumptions about the cognitive and behavioral attributes of humans, a similar assumption should be made explicit regarding the affective capacities of individuals. While Williamson’s view on this issue has yet to be determined, Simon, himself, suggests that any mature social science “will have to come to accommodate both intellect and affect” (1957: 200).

End Note by Ishizuka:
“As they say in academia, all errors are mine.  I do believe Oliver Williamson, given his openness and interdisciplinary scope will one day incorporate fear into TCE and that this will have fundamental implications on understanding the current financial crisis and lessening the impact of future ones.  His framework is important because it is an integrated paradigm in economic organization.  For fear to be included in such a paradigm, however, it is my turn to work, to get Dr. Yukio Ishizuka’s theory and understanding of fear known and accepted.  In the future, I would like to work on how fear varies, and identify the factors that are responsible for this variation.”

— Nathalie Ishizuka

The paper was accepted for presentation at the Academy of Management, Boston, August 1997.  To ask that the full article or parts be included in a journal or book, please contact the author through the Lifetrack Contact Form on this site.

If you have a syllabus with assumptions about healthy human beings applied to organizations, economics, negotiation, political science or other fields please contact Nathalie Ishizuka through the Positive Mental Health Foundation contact form.  She is interested in collecting these for future use and sharing.

Copyright © 1997 Nathalie Ishizuka

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Models of the Nation State that interact with the Individual and Organizational Models can be useful for analyzing different levels of analysis.

Selected Readings and Lectures:

Ishizuka, Nathalie.  “A Trinitarian Model of War and Peace,” Working Paper submitted to Herbert Kelman for his class, Social-Psychological Approaches to International Conflict, Harvard University.

Ishizuka, Y., and Ishizuka N. ” ‘Fear of Closeness’ Underlies Interpersonal as Well as International Conflicts,” Proceedings of World Congress of Psychiatry, Spain, 1996.

“The U.S.-Japan Relationship from a Psychological Perspective” A panel on the U.S. – Japan Relationship, with Prof. Paul R. Krugman and others, Tufts University, Medford, MA (45 minutes)

Ishizuka, Yukio.  “The Japanese Mind: Its Implications for Corporations and Nations”The Institute for Global Business Strategy, Distinguished Lecture Series, Pace University, New York, November 12,1991 (3 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio.  “The Japanese Mind: Its Implications for the U.S.-Japan Relationship”AT&T Global Business Symposium, with Mr. Clyde Prestowitz and others, Bedminster, NJ, December 12,1991 (1.5 hours)

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A Need for Models based on Healthy Human Beings

Organizational and International behavior should be based on assumptions about healthy human beings.  Read section a Science of Health (life way), Criteria for Health Models (science of happiness), Happiness Defined? Quantified?  (cycle of life),  Happier? (fear of the unknown),  Why Positive Mental Health Works (objective subjective), and Insights (life purpose).

Visit the Positive Mental Health Foundation to support a study of human beings at their best, happiest, and most creative form.  Link to us to promote health and happiness.

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Organizations and Organizational Health

Dr. Yukio Ishizuka worked for 4 years at McKinsey (1969-1972) as an Associate on general management consulting.  At McKinsey he admired Marvin Bower his mentor and worked on assignments in Paris, Amsterdam, Toronto, Tokyo and NY offices in a variety of businesses.  Yukio Ishizuka also spent one year at Arthur D. Little as a Consultant (1968-69) on organizational development projects for top management teams for conflict resolution and enhancing creativity.  From 1972-1976 he didmergers and acquisitions for U.S. acquisitions as President and Director of a company financed by Mitsubishi International.

Nathalie Ishizuka studied business, negotiation and international affairs taking classes such as Managing Innovation, and Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations at HBS and the winter Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law.  She has an MBA from HEC Paris and a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy.  After successfully completing the first year of a Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations at the Haas School of Business, she left academia to pursue her interest in organizations, health, and technology by directly working with innovative firms, including starting her own.  She is grateful to Haas and in particular to Oliver Williamson for helping her understand how new paradigms in organizations are built.

Organizational Model

Based on his understanding of individual personality and health, and his experience working for a variety of companies Dr. Yukio Ishizuka has developed organizational models that integrate with the individual personality model.  They have been used to help CEOs better understand and track a variety of factors that contribute to their organization’s success and excellence.  Dr. Yukio Ishizuka has presented the individual and organizational models to corporations such as AT&T, IBM, and other elite Japanese, American and European CEOs.

Nathalie Ishizuka (MBA) has written a working paper integrating Individual and Organizational Effectiveness: a Systems View integrating Yukio Ishizuka’s model of human personality with Chris Argyris’ model of organization and pushing the two further by defining criteria for Organizational Health models.  In the paper she expands on Yukio Ishizuka’s existing organizational model with a systems view of organizations; integrating the individual model of health with organizational health. In addition to this academic interest, she works with entrepreneurs and new technologies in the creative process of innovation.

Readings, Lectures, More Info on Organizational Health and Excellence

Ishizuka, Yukio.  Lecture: “In Search of Excellence and Well-Being” Presentation of Life-Track to Mr. Ralph Pheifer, Chairman of IBM Asia and Americas and staff to help enhance executive performance. 1985 (2 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio.  “Individual and Organizational Excellence and Well-Being” Lecture forKeizai Doyu-kai Nagoya Chapter meeting of 200 CEOs and senior executives, 1987 (1.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Facing Structural Challenges: The U.S. and Japan.”  AT&T Global Business Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 1992 (2.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio.  “The Breakdown of Elite Japanese Executives Abroad” Lecture forKeizai Doyu-kai meeting of 200 Japanese CEOs, 1986 (1.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “How To Overcome Stress at the Top” Lecture for The Japanese Chemical Manufacturers Club, 50 C.E.O.’s of the Japanese chemical manufacturing companies, September 23, 1997 (1 hour)

Ishizuka, Yukio, “The Japanese Mind: Its Implications for the U.S.-Japan Relationship” AT&T Global Business Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 1992 (2.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Facing Structural Challenges: The U.S. and Japan.”  AT&T Global Business Symposium, Phoenix, Arizona, March 26, 1992 (2.5 hours)

Ishizuka, Yukio. “Excellence and Wellbeing : How to Achieve and Grow Both” Lecture forAnnual Meeting of IFMSA-Japan (International Federation of Medical Student Association-Japan)

Ishizuka, Yukio.  “Happiness and Success : How To Achieve and Grow Both” Lecture forNippon Club of New York, 2007

Ishizuka, Y. and ed. Ishizuka N., “Special Report, How to Help Executives under Stress,”Nikkei Business, September 1992.

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Breakdown of a Japanese Businessman: a Trap for Business Elites,”Voice Magazine, January 1984.

Ishizuka, Yukio, “The Pitfall for Business Elites,” Nikkei Business, the leading Japanese Business Magazine, September 1986.

Ishizuka, Yukio.  “Stress is Your Friend,” Asahi Shinbun International, August 27,1992. A feature interview with Dr. Ishizuka.

Ishizuka, Yukio, “Japan’s Place in the World,” Zaikai-Koron, a Japanese business monthly, 1976.  Among those interviewed by Dr. Ishizuka were Mr. David Rockefeller, Chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank, Mr. George Ball, former Secretary of State, Mr. Joseph Fravin, CEO of Singer & C., Professor Henry de Bettignies, Director of the Asian Center of INSEAD, and Professor Hugh T. Patrick of Yale University.

Shiroyama, S., The Conditions for Survival. Kodansha: Tokyo, 1991. The book consists of in-depth interviews with eleven individuals from diverse fields. Dr. Ishizuka was interviewed along with the economist Milton Friedman, Andrew Night, editor-in-chief of The Economist, and golfer Jack Nicolas.

“International Front, Japanese Middle Management under Stress,” The New York Times, Sunday March 29,1992. Interview with Dr. Ishizuka.

Casey, E., “A New Computer Tool,” Wall Street Micro News, Oct. 1985.

Lewyn, Mark and Kelly, Erin. “Now, Feedback from Life-Track,” USA Today, September 26,1985.

“Mental Health for an International Businessman,” Mental Health Magazine for Management, March 1984.

Berger, M., “A Japanese Psychiatrist’s Answer to Executive Stress,” International Management, McGraw-Hill, March 1987. An interview with Dr. Yukio Ishizuka introducing Life-Track.

Yogata, M., “Personal Setback and Growth,” Marubeni, December 1985. A personal account documenting the depression and recovery of one of Dr. Ishizuka’s former patients while on assignment in New York. The article celebrates Yogata’s promotion toDirector of leading Japanese corporation.

Costa, P., “The Case of Sad Success,” Gannet Westchester Newspapers, September 11, 1985. A cover-page interview featuring Dr. Ishizuka.

“From Management Consulting to Psychiatric Practice,” Trapedia, May 1982. Interview with Dr. Ishizuka.

“First Encounters,” Business Tokyo, January 1992. Dr. Ishizuka quoted as expert for American businessmen in Japan.

“Japanese Executives Under Stress,” Yomiuri Shinbun, January 12,1986.

Shiroyama, S., Getting Stronger, Overcoming Setbacks. Nippon Keizai Shimbun: Tokyo, 1983. Shiroyama is one of the most prominent authors in Japan. Quotes Dr. Ishizuka extensively.

Woller, B., “When Work is Your World,” Gannet Westchester Newspapers, February 2,1988. Dr. Ishizuka quoted in front-page article.

Woller, B., “When Work is Your World,” Gannet Westchester Newspapers, February 2,1988. Dr. Ishizuka quoted in front-page article.

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Behind Science, Simple Assumptions about the Nature of Human Beings

Behind every social science are some fundamental and simple assumptions about the nature of human beings and human personality.  When models of science incorporate assumptions about humans in our optimal most creative form, we can understand better what we are truly capable of, as well as our limits.  Models about healthy human beings can provide new insights into our organizations, and international affairs, forming not only a new individual science, but new organizational models, and a more comprehensive science of international behavior.

All Models of Man are Working Models in Progress

Some of the work on this site applies a healthy assumption about human beings to other fields (for example to the work of the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economics).  Other work attempts to bring to life conceptual models that can be used as a level of analysis (individual, organizational, national or international).  At the core of such models are Lifetrack assumptions about healthy human beings.

Naturally, human beings are not organizations or nations.  However, having models that can interact as systems allows us to understand how each unit of analysis influences and impacts the whole.

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In the future, we would enjoy working on such models and applications further, but now our priority is to get one individual model of health and personality known and used on a wider scale by the general public.

Manage with an Understanding of Healthy Human Beings

We encourage politicians, CEOs, and scientists, to think about the assumptions about the nature of man or human personality that underlie a healthy nation, organization or any field of science.

We encourage academics to build models based on an understanding of healthy human beings or models of human personality that can explain man at his best, most creative form as well as in distress. These models should encompass our potential and our limits.

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