When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
AKIO MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.
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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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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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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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Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want.
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An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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