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.
AKIO MORITAFrom a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people’s inborn creativity.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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We treat employees as a member of the family.
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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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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees; the company should sacrifice a profit. It’s management’s risk and management’s responsibility.
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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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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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