It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
AKIO MORITAIt’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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