If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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To create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period.
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The public does not know what is possible. We do.
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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
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The only sure thing is that in business there are no sure things.
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It has run consistently about 6 percent of sales at Sony – and in service.
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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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And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
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When I find an employee who turns out to be wrong for the job,
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But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
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