If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
AKIO MORITAWhen I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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 feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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