Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAThere is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Don’t do market research.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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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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