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.
AKIO MORITAThe best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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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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