Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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