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.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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