It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
AKIO MORITAOur plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn’t work that way.
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Don’t do market research.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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