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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.

Akio Morita

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Akio Morita
Age: 78 †
Born: 1921
Born: January 26
Died: 1999
Died: October 3
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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, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.
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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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While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Carefully watch how people live, get an intuitive sense as to what they might want and then go with it. Don’t do market research.
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In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. 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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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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If we face recession, we should not lay off employees the company should sacrifice a profit. It's management's risk and management's responsibility. Employees are not guilty why should they suffer?
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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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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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Without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
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I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
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America looks 10 minutes ahead Japan looks 10 years.
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Curiosity is the key to creativity.
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If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell 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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If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.
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All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.
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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.
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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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