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 MORITAWe all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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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 believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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