My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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Don’t do market research.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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