We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
AKIO MORITAWe treat employees as a member of the family.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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