Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAWithout an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Don’t do market research.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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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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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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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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