But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
AKIO MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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 “patron saint” of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.
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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.
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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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My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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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 attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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