If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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