But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.
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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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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Don’t do market research.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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