I’m a male member based in Kansai.

I’m not sure what the point of this question is, but is there really any benefit to sharing the contents of a book with all the employees? For better or worse, the contents of a book are usually tailored to being published as a book. If you read a book about how to get rich, does that mean you’ll become rich? I don’t think there are many people who became wealthy simply by doing exactly what a book told them to do. (If following a book’s advice really made you rich, then a book that sold 100,000 copies should have created 100,000 wealthy people. In that case, I feel like it would easily sell around 10 million copies.) So, I’m not sure whether asking if the book should be shared with all the staff is even the right question. > “I work from home, so…” I think the person asking this should understand that it’s jumping to conclusions to hear one person’s story and assume it represents the whole company. Universe is an interesting company. Anyone in a position of chief or above can purchase whatever books they like at any time without needing prior approval. The basic rule is that the books should be related to work, but as long as there’s a valid work-related reason, you can basically purchase any book. It’s possible that the person you spoke to decided that ordering President Kida’s book wasn’t work-related, so I don’t know the details. But normally, you should simply be able to click “Purchase.” Even employees below chief level can buy books with just their supervisor’s approval. The question is whether their supervisor—the chief—will approve it after they click “Purchase,” but it seems quite natural to consider President Kida’s book work-related, so I imagine it would be approved. So, people below chief level may bring it up because approval is required, but even then, I doubt there’s any chief who wouldn’t approve it if they simply took the initiative and clicked “Purchase.” Of course, you can also have the many copies at a branch office sent to you without requesting approval. And if you go to the branch yourself, even remote employees are free to take books home, so you can just pick one up. When you look at it that way, I can’t help wondering whether people who say they can’t read it because they work from home simply don’t really want to read it in the first place. You could even buy it yourself, after all…

Do you think President Kida is the kind of person who sends his employees a book he wrote and tells them to read it? You read the book, didn’t you? Marika

It feels kind of off for the company president to hand out copies of the book to employees. Wouldn’t it be enough to give them to people who actually want to read it?