There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
AKIO MORITAWe want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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