My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
AKIO MORITAThe most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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I often say to my assistants, “Never trust anybody,” but what I mean is that you should never trust someone else to do a job exactly the way you would want it done.
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Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
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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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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail.
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We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart’s desire their technological capacity.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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 it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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The company must not throw money away on huge bonuses for executives or other frivolities but must share its fate with the workers.
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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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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it.
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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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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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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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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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We don’t believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.
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