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.
AKIO MORITAWhen I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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