Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
AKIO MORITAManagement 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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 United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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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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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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If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.
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I believe people work for satisfaction.
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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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