About Music Production

Hiroaki Nishikawa, managing director at AlphaTheta, sets out a leadership stance that prizes trust, clarity, and autonomy over micromanagement. He frames trust as the foundation for creative work, arguing that teams deliver better when goals and constraints are clear, responsibility is distributed, and feedback flows both ways. He links micromanaging to friction, bottlenecks, and lost momentum, and favors empowering specialists to make timely calls. He emphasizes transparent communication across engineering, design, and marketing, accountability paired with psychological safety, and processes that let music-technology teams iterate quickly while staying aligned on user needs and product quality.