We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
AKIO MORITAMy solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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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 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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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