His philosophy is that "he's just like everyone else trying to make it
through Japan's recession, is why he takes the city bus to work, eats in
the cafeteria with his employees and strolls through the operations
room at the airport. When the company looked to cut costs, he eliminated
every single expensive perk of his job. He took away the corner office
and chauffeur. Then he slashed his pay dramatically, so that in 2007 he
made less than his pilots."
"He points to corporate culture as the long-term solution. Like the
AIG bonuses "shocked" him. "It's like they're from
another planet," he says.
A lesson of this recession, he hopes, will be that corporations don't
solely pursue profit and instead focus on the long-term financial
health of the company and employ people and help society. Together with
shared sacrifice, he believes, the global economy will recover - but
only if everyone from the CEO to the entry-level employee works
together."
There
is an article about those facts. Of course this wouldn't happened in
North American culture, which is not taught to think this way (as is
pointed out by euclase here).
Still, I think that long term business, as many asian cultures see it,
is a better solution than siezing the day and making it spit out money. We should learn of such a man.
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