There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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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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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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