My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
AKIO MORITAOnce you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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