From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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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 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.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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Don’t do market research.
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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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