I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Don’t do market research.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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