Management 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.
AKIO MORITAAn enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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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.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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