But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
AKIO MORITAThe “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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The remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kind of a con job.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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