The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITAYou can be totally rational with a machine.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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Don’t do market research.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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 believe people work for satisfaction.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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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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