From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
AKIO MORITAI 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.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.
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