The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
AKIO MORITABut if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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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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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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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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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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If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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