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금호건설, 임직원 걷기 챌린지 'JUST WALK 시즌5' 진행
[경제일보] 금호건설은 임직원의 건강 증진과 일상 속 탄소중립 실천을 위한 걷기 챌린지 ‘JUST WALK 시즌5’를 시작한다고 11일 밝혔다. ‘JUST WALK’는 지난 2022년 첫선을 보인 이후 매년 진행해 온 금호건설의 대표적인 사내 친환경 챌린지 프로그램이다. 자동차 이용을 줄이고 일상 속 걷기를 생활화해 온실가스 배출을 줄이는 동시에, 임직원의 건강한 걷기 습관 형성을 장려하기 위해 기획됐다. 이번 챌린지는 오는 17일까지 총 7일간 진행된다. 올해로 5회째를 맞은 이번 ‘JUST WALK 시즌5’에는 개인 270명과 그룹 28개 팀이 참가 신청을 마쳤다. 첫 회인 시즌1과 비교해 참가 인원이 2.5배 이상 대폭 늘어났으며 지난 시즌4에 이어 역대 최대 참여 인원을 기록하며 사내 대표 소통·참여형 행사로 자리 잡았다. 이번 챌린지는 하루 1만 보 걷기를 달성하는 ‘개인 미션’과 3인에서 8인까지 자유롭게 팀을 구성해 평균 걸음 수를 측정하는 ‘그룹 미션’으로 다채롭게 구성됐다. 특히 임직원 간의 결속과 소통을 높이기 위한 그룹 특화 이벤트를 통해 함께하는 재미를 더했다. 챌린지 기간 동안 매일 1만 보를 달성한 임직원과 개인 최다 걸음 수 기록자, 우수 그룹 팀원들에게는 소정의 상금을 지급해 적극적인 참여를 독려한다. 금호건설 관계자는 “JUST WALK는 임직원들이 일상에서 가볍게 걸으며 건강을 챙기고 친환경 탄소중립 활동에 동참할 수 있는 뜻깊은 사내 캠페인”이라며 “임직원이 주도적으로 참여할 수 있는 다채로운 프로그램을 통해 건강하고 활력 넘치는 조직문화를 만들어 나갈 것”이라고 말했다. 부영그룹, 사랑으로 어린이집 원장 대상 관찰교육 진행 부영그룹은 부영 사랑으로 어린이집 원장을 대상으로 영유아에 대한 관찰 역량을 높이고 교사 지원 능력을 강화하기 위한 ‘2026년 부영 사랑으로 어린이집 원장교육’을 진행한다고 11일 밝혔다. 이번 교육은 ‘관찰 교육’을 주제로 오는 2027년 1월까지 약 5개월간 진행된다. 사전 오리엔테이션과 5회차 교육, 사후 평가회로 구성되며, 동영상 강의와 온라인 실시간 교육을 병행해 원장들이 교육 내용을 현장에서 직접 적용할 수 있도록 운영한다. 교육은 △있는 그대로 기록하기 △영유아 교육현장에서 관찰하기 △관찰기록을 토대로 영유아 이해하기 △관찰 결과를 토대로 교육과정 운영 개선하기 △관찰 결과를 토대로 부모와 소통 및 협력하기로 구성돼 있다. 특히 이번 교육은 원장 개인의 학습에 그치지 않고 교육 내용을 어린이집 교사들과 공유해 원내 학습공동체로 확산하고 실제 보육 현장에 적용·개선하는 데 중점을 두고 있다. 원장들은 교육 과정에서 교사들의 관찰 관련 어려움을 점검하고 교육 전후 교사들의 관찰기록과 변화를 살펴보며 필요한 지원 방안을 함께 모색한다. 이와 함께 관찰 결과를 바탕으로 영유아의 특성과 필요를 이해하고 교육과정 운영을 개선할 예정이다. 부영그룹 보육지원팀은 “영유아를 이해하기 위해서는 일상에서 아이들의 모습을 세심하게 관찰하고 이를 있는 그대로 기록하고, 기록을 토대로 영유아를 이해하는 과정이 중요하다”며 “이번 교육을 통해 부영 사랑으로 원장들의 관찰 역량뿐만 아니라 교육 내용을 현장에 직접 적용하는 역량도 함께 높아지길 기대한다”고 전했다. LH, 입주민 참여형 정원 프로그램 운영…‘가든페스타2.0’ 시행 한국토지주택공사(LH)는 입주민 참여형 정원 프로그램인 ‘가든페스타2.0’ 프로그램을 운영 중이라고 11일 밝혔다. ‘가든페스타2.0’은 다양한 연령층의 입주민이 한데 어울려 소통하며 아파트 단지 안 외부 조경 공간을 다채롭게 가꿔보는 입주민 참여형 정원문화 프로그램이다. 지난해 평택고덕2단지, 화성남양뉴타운20단지 등 3개 단지에서 처음 진행됐다. 올해 ‘가든페스타2.0’ 프로그램은 7월 고양장항1단지를 시작으로, 오는 11월까지 인천검단37‧38단지, 화성동탄2 38단지, 평택고덕12단지 등에서 순차적으로 선보인다. 앞서 이달 10일에는 인천검단 37‧38단지에서 입주민 자녀를 대상으로 ‘우리동네, 나무친구 만들기’ 프로그램이 진행됐다. 어린이들은 단지 내 커뮤니티시설에서 나만의 수목을 ‘나무친구’로 지정하고 직접 돌보며 자연과 교감하는 시간을 가졌다. 인천검단 37‧38단지에서는 고령자 입주민을 대상으로 ‘아로마 테라피 가드닝’ 프로그램이 열렸다. 참여자들은 주거 공간에서 쉽게 키울 수 있는 허브 식물에 대해 배우고 소통하며 일상 속 웰니스 실천 방법을 배웠다. LH 관계자는 “입주민들이 주체적으로 참여하는 활동을 통해 이웃 간 유대감을 강화하고 함께 가꾸는 주거 문화를 조성하는 계기가 될 것으로 기대한다”라며 “자연과 사람이 어우러지는 다양한 참여형 프로그램을 발굴해 입주민이 체감할 수 있는 주거환경을 만들어 나갈 것”이라고 말했다.
2026-09-11 17:08:58
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Lessons in Leadership from the Classics | Chapter 4: Nvidia
The Patience and the Ascent of Jensen Huang How the Alleyways of Korea and the Floors of Semiconductor Factories Forged the Aesthetics of 古枯孤高 [Economy Daily] At the beating heart of the civilizational upheaval we call artificial intelligence stands one company and one man: Nvidia and Jensen Huang. The world measures them in market capitalization and market share. But the deeper truth of great leadership outlasts any number. It is the power of time, long and unhurried. It is the discipline of subtraction. It is the courage of solitude. And it is, finally, the dignity that comes only from having endured. In the vocabulary of East Asian philosophy, these four qualities compress into a single phrase: 古枯孤高 — ancient (古), austere (枯), solitary (孤), elevated (高). Nvidia's rise is not the story of a stock that spiked overnight. It is the story of these four characters slowly calcifying into the bones of one man and the culture of one company, across thirty years of painstaking accumulation. 古 — The Ancient: Time as the First Discipline Every great enterprise, if it is truly great, eventually earns its face — but only through time. Jensen Huang had been walking this earth as a businessman long before the world knew his name. His relationship with Korea begins here, and it begins on foot. According to domestic industry accounts from that era, Huang made repeated visits to Yongsan Electronics Market in Seoul in the late 1990s and early 2000s — when Nvidia was still an obscure startup struggling to be taken seriously. He came not as a visiting dignitary but as a salesman: explaining graphics cards to shop owners, persuading assemblers, winning trust one transaction at a time. Huang himself has said his connection to Korea dates to 1996. He has spoken of how South Korea's explosion of high-speed internet, its PC-bang culture, and the nationwide fever for StarCraft formed a critical foundation for Nvidia's early growth. Korea, in those years, was the world's most electrified laboratory for digital culture — and the heat of its gaming rooms, the sharpness of its consumers, the velocity with which it embraced new technology, all of it nourished a company that had not yet found its footing. This detail matters enormously. The histories of great corporations are often rewritten to begin in gleaming boardrooms or on famous stages. But Jensen Huang's formation happened in narrow storefronts, surrounded by towers of component boxes, in a market where customers were price-sensitive and performance-obsessed and utterly unimpressed by brand mythology. In Yongsan, he did not sell a brand. He sold credibility. He sold product knowledge. He sold the felt experience of superior performance. The I Ching offers an image for this season of a man's life: 潛龍勿用 — "the hidden dragon does not yet act." The dragon submerged beneath the water has not yet ascended to the sky, but it is already gathering strength, already orienting itself toward its direction. Korea was that submerged time for Jensen Huang. It was where the dragon went quiet and grew. 枯 — The Austere: The Discipline of Withholding Austerity is not poverty. It is restraint. And few companies in the history of Silicon Valley have practiced restraint as rigorously or as consequentially as Nvidia. While its competitors raced to win the surface war — chasing specification numbers, upgrading the cosmetics of their products, playing to the gallery of consumer benchmarks — Huang kept his organization's attention trained on something less visible and far more consequential: the underlying architecture of computation, the logic of parallel processing, the infrastructure that would eventually become the indispensable engine of artificial intelligence. This is the aesthetic the Chinese literati call 枯淡 — a beauty that comes not from ornament but from essence. The Diamond Sutra puts it this way: 凡所有相 皆是虛妄 — "all that has form is ultimately illusion." In business terms: what catches the eye rarely determines a company's fate. What determines fate is the capability that cannot be seen. Nvidia understood this early. That is why the Nvidia of today rests not on the appearance of its products but on the depth of its software ecosystem, its developer base, and the intellectual architecture that competitors cannot easily replicate. This philosophy of austerity extends to Huang's understanding of human character. Speaking at Stanford, he told students that the most important trait for success is not intelligence but resilience — and went further, saying, "I hope you will have the experience of suffering and hardship." It is a startling thing to say, and deliberately so. His point is unambiguous: greatness is not the product of cleverness alone. Character is forged not in comfort but in friction. Huang speaks from experience. He has publicly described being bullied in an American boarding school as a boy, washing dishes and cleaning bathrooms at minimum wage. His philosophy of hardship is not rhetoric. It is autobiography. Most organizations today speak to their people endlessly about well-being and are afraid to speak about tempering. But Jensen Huang did not flinch from the uncomfortable truth: growth always requires some degree of resistance and endurance. He knows this in his body. 孤 — The Solitary: The Courage of the Unfashionable Conviction Solitude, properly understood, is not the condition of being alone. It is the willingness to choose a road that others have not taken — and to walk it long enough to find out whether you were right. Nvidia was, for a very long time, a company that received no particular applause. It was known as a graphics chip company, and in that category, it was formidable. But inside that public identity, Huang carried a private and lonely conviction: that the dominant paradigm of computing would shift — that the age of the general-purpose CPU would eventually yield to an age of accelerated computing. Markets demand the present moment. Leaders sometimes have to absorb today's contempt in exchange for tomorrow's vindication. Only those who sustain that solitude earn the right to the rewards of early arrival. The Analects of Confucius puts it plainly: 德不孤 必有隣 — "virtue is never truly alone; it will always find its neighbors." What appears solitary and eccentric at the beginning eventually draws its community. And in the story of Nvidia and Korea, this movement from isolation to alliance is almost perfectly illustrated. The partnership between Huang and South Korea has long since outgrown its origins in retail sales. SK Hynix began collaborating with Nvidia on High Bandwidth Memory in the uncertain early days of that technology — a bet made before the outcome was clear. That relationship has since deepened into something that resembles co-development more than supply chain. Nvidia has been advancing large-scale AI chip supply and infrastructure cooperation with the Korean government, Samsung, the SK Group, Hyundai Motor Group, and Naver. The lonely salesman who once walked the aisles of Yongsan is now at the table with the leaders of Korean industry and government, shaping the architecture of the nation's AI future. The solitary vigil became a strategic alliance. What was once walked alone is now walked together. 高 — The Elevated: Altitude as Accountability Elevation is not merely position. It is character — the capacity to see farther and to hold responsibility longer than others can or will. The Doctrine of the Mean speaks of 至誠無息 — "true sincerity never rests." This is, unexpectedly, one of the most precise descriptions of how Jensen Huang has run his company. He did not build Nvidia on a passing fashion. He crossed product failures, market cynicism, supply chain crises, and geopolitical headwinds, and climbed — slowly, deliberately, one foothold at a time — to the position the company occupies today. This is not a mountain ascended in a season. This is a summit reached in decades. Here, again, Korea re-enters the story. However regal the title "emperor of the AI era" may sound, the circuitry running through that crown is substantially Korean. Korea began as the consumption frontier — the PC-bang, the gaming market, the early adopter culture that gave Nvidia its first mass foothold. It has since become the strategic frontier: the partner in HBM and advanced memory, the co-architect of AI factories and digital transformation. Between the image of Jensen Huang persuading shop owners in Yongsan and the image of Jensen Huang discussing AI infrastructure with the heads of Korea's largest conglomerates, there runs a very long river. But the river is unbroken. What he first saw in Korea was not merely a sales opportunity. He saw a society with an extraordinary capacity for fast technical comprehension, for organizing technology into industry, for connecting the work of the mind to the work of the factory floor. That insight lives inside every partnership he has built here since. A Reckoning for Korean Business What, then, should Korean business leaders take from this? The lesson is not complicated, though it is demanding. Innovation does not arise from eloquent mission statements. It arises from time endured, from the discipline to discard the inessential, from the independence to pursue an unpopular answer, and from the accountability that eventually transforms all of it into something worthy of the word dignity. Jensen Huang's career is not a story of a man who happened to catch the AI wave at the right moment. It is a story of sediment — of years and decades of experience, discipline, and conviction accumulating until they were precisely aligned with the door that history opened. Which asks certain questions of Korean business. Do we still carry the original instinct of those years when we wrestled with the market on the ground floor — when we had no reputation to trade on, only our knowledge and our reliability? Do we have the austere courage to strip away what is not essential? Do we have the nerve to choose the lonely right answer over the popular wrong one? Management, at its best, is completed in the love of people, in the respect for the work done in the field, and in the refusal to defy the logic of time and nature. The tree that grows too fast is hollow at its core. The success that comes too easily has shallow roots. Nvidia — Jensen Huang's Nvidia — took the opposite path. It stood like an ancient tree, silent and unhurried, enduring the winds and the droughts, growing upward alone toward the high place it had decided, long ago, to reach. His success, for that reason, is not a flash of light. It is light that stays. That is the lesson of 古枯孤高. Only those who have endured long enough ascend high enough. Only those who have passed through austerity reach genuine depth. Only those who have borne solitude long enough find themselves, one day, at the center of their age. Jensen Huang's Korean story is one essential thread in that larger narrative. Today's glory is conceived in yesterday's alleyways. Even the history of the world's most powerful technology company is completed, in the end, only on the accumulated sweat and trust of human beings. He is demonstrating that, quietly, every day. The author is a contributing columnist covering business philosophy, technology, and economic history.
2026-04-22 11:57:23