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.
Akio MoritaRead
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Working with people often requires empathy and understanding rather than just logical reasoning.
This quote emphasizes the distinction between interacting with machines, which can be approached purely rationally, and dealing with human beings, where understanding and empathy play crucial roles. It suggests that in human interactions, emotional intelligence and relational dynamics sometimes take precedence over strict logic and rationality.
Themes
UnderstandingPeopleRelationshipsEmpathyLogic
In practice
Example use cases
In a team meeting, you might say, 'As Akio Morita pointed out, we must remember that understanding our colleagues is key to collaboration.'
More from Akio Morita
All quotes βOnce you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative.
Akio MoritaRead
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.
Akio MoritaRead
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.
Akio MoritaRead
Similar quotes
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
Candice BergenRead
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
Bren BrownRead
The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.
William HazlittRead
As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.
Dalai LamaRead
I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.' 'If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.
Neil GaimanRead
Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least.
Jane AustenRead