Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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 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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Don’t do market research.
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