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.
AKIO MORITAIf you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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