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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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Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.

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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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The most important mission for a Japanese manager is to develop a healthy relationship with his employees, to create a familylike feeling within the corporation, a feeling that employees and managers share the same fate.

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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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We don't believe in market research for a new product unknown to the public. So we never do any.

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We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

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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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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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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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(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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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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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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America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

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Japanese attitudes toward work seem to be critically different from American attitudes.

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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.

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I believe it is a big mistake to think that money is the only way to compensate a person for his work. People need money, but they also want to be happy in their work and proud of it.

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I believe people work for satisfaction.

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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.

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