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 MORITADon’t do market research.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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Americans make money by playing `money games,’ namely mergers, acquisitions, by simply moving money back and forth … instead of creating and producing goods with some actual value.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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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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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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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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