Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
AKIO MORITAThere is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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 create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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