Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
AKIO MORITAFrom a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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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 people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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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.
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More people are interested in trying to shuffle paper assets around than building lasting assets by producing real goods.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
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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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The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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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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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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Every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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