To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
AKIO MORITAEmployees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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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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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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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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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 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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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