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.
AKIO MORITAAmericans 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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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.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 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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