Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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I 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.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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