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.
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.
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.
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?
There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.