We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
AKIO MORITAThe 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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