Akio Morita: Management

Akio Morita was Japanese businessman. Explore interesting quotes on management.

Akio Morita: 94 quotes1 like

“A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.”

Akio Morita, cited in: John Raymond Phillips (1994) The future of labor-management cooperative programs. p. 6.
Made in Japan (1986)

“The American system of management, in my opinion, also relies too much on outsiders to help make business decisions., and this is because of the insecurity that American decision makers feel in their jobs, as compared with most top Japanese corporate executives.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 178.

“…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.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 154.

“Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 181.

“We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.”

Akio Morita, cited in: Nick Lyons (1976) The Sony vision. p. 101.

“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.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 168.

“The concept of lifetime employment arose when Japanese managers and employees both realized that they had much in common and that they had to make some long-range plans.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 137.

“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.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 130.

“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.”

Source: Made in Japan (1986), p. 164.