The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
AKIO MORITAIf you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
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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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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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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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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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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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In the long run, no matter how good or successful you are or how clever or crafty.
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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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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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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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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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