The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees.
AKIO MORITAJapanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.
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We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
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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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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.
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To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
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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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It’s difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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If you don’t want Japan to buy it, don’t sell it.
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Your business and its future are in the hands of the people you hire.
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You can be totally rational with a machine.
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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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