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 MORITAMy 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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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The “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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 often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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We want everybody to have the best facilities in which to work, but we do not believe in posh and impressive private offices.
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