Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
An enemy of innovation could be your own sales force.
without an organisation that can work together, sometimes over a very long period, it's difficult to see new projects to fruition.
We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.
(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.
While the United States has been busy creating lawyers, we have been busier creating engineers.
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.
It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.
And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.
You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.