The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITANever break another man’s rice bowl.
More Akio Morita Quotes
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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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Of course we have to make a profit, but we have to make a profit over the long haul, not just the short term, and that means we must keep investing in research and development.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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I feel it is my fault because I made the decision to hire him.
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Never break another man’s rice bowl.
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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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Advertising and promotion alone will not sustain a bad product or a product that is not right for the times.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target.
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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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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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Employees are not guilty; why should they suffer?
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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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