The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITAThe 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 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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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