“If you want eggs, take care of the hen,”

[borom]

If this 83-year-old billionaire is right, one of the most important lessons of business school is pretty much wrong...
All that stuff about focusing on shareholders? Forget it, says Kazuo Inamori...... Spend your time making staff happy instead. He’s used this philosophy to establish electronics giant Kyocera Corp......, create ...KDDI Corp., and rescue Japan Airlines Co. from its 2010 bankruptcy.

.....Inamori expresses doubts about western capitalist ways....
“If you want eggs, take care of the hen,” Inamori said ....“If you bully or kill the hen, it’s not going to work.”.....

After taking the CEO role without pay, he printed a small book for each staff member on his philosophies, which declared that the company was devoted to their growth.........how employees should live, such as being humble and doing the right thing.......
.Company leaders should seek to make all their employees happy, both materially and intellectually,” Inamori said. “That’s their purpose. It shouldn’t be to work for shareholders.”............
Inamori’s less-extreme capitalism is a product of Japanese society, which he says is less willing to accept gaps between haves and have-nots than western economies............
“Companies do belong to shareholders, but hundreds or thousands of employees are also involved,” Inamori said. “The hen has to be healthy

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-rule-of-this-billionaire-and-buddhist-priest

Refreshing change from the monies is the most important philosophy of the pappy.
Would trains breakdown so often or would the hepatitis outbreak happen if SMRT or SGH take this approach?

 

[greedy and cunning]

Si-E-Oh of company like sinkTel , SM-RT
are managing profit ,not the company.

 

[eatshitndie]

in sg hens willingly collect cardboards as a form of personal fulfillment and exercise.

 

[halsey02]

The 83 year old billionaire have not been to Singapore or, he would have met the HEN we have, "bargain HEN"....whom we looked after, but lay duck eggs...ha ha ha ha

Yes..we got EGGS!

 

[johnny333]

in my opinion the PAP have become too greedy. They have killed the hen that lays the golden eggs.

You can see the result all around: Aging & struggling populace with a lot of debts, new buildings that are not long term homes but cost centres to live in, constantly increasing costs without increasing pay,...

 

[mojito]

That is right. You want your nest egg safe, you have to pay top dollars of the hen sitting on it right now.