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.
AKIO MORITAThere are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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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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(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 to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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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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But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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