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.
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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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use 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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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