From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
AKIO MORITAAmenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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