The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITAWe don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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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 public does not know what is possible. We do.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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