If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
AKIO MORITAManagement 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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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.
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Don’t do market research.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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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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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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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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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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