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.
AKIO MORITAIt has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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