The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITAThere are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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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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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.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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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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Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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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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