We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
AKIO MORITAIn the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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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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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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(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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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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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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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