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Case 18 Kazuo Inamori: Managerial Renewal by a Venture Manager

Inamori Begins Kyoto Ceramic (Kyocera) as a Venture Manager

One might object to inclusion of Kazuo Inamori in Part III covering the post-1990s period because Inamori founded Kyoto Ceramics in 1959 (Showa 34), and his success coincided with the rapid growth of the Japanese economy. However, there is a reason for situating Inamori in Part III rather than Part II. His entrepreneurial activities were characterized by bold risk-taking when he began as a venture manager. His future-oriented market cultivation and technological development were based on the premise of growth through learning rather than preservation of the status quo, and he continued to evolve through simple yet unique measures for organizational revitalization. Japanese business leaders had lost these elements during the period of stagnation, but all were crucial to revive Japan’s economy. As if to prove the point, Kazuo Inamori continued to play an activ

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Kazuo Inamori: Buddhist priest who became a billionaire snubbing investors

If this 83-year-old billionaireis 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, entrepreneur, management guru and Buddhist priest. Spend your time making staff happy instead. He’s used this philosophy to establish electronics giant Kyocera more than five decades ago, create the $64-billion phone carrier now known as KDDI Corp., and rescue Japan Airlines from its 2010 bankruptcy.

From Kyocera’s headquarters overlooking the hills and temples of the ancient capital of Kyoto, Inamori expresses doubts about western capitalist ways. His views are a reminder that many bastions of Japanese business don’t buy into Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s plans to man companies more devoted to shareholders.

“If you want eggs, take care of the hen,” Inamori said in an interview on October 23. “If you bully or kill t

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“But after he had been singing awhile, mist and shadows seemed to gather about him, sometimes coming out of the sea, and sometimes moving upon it. It seemed to him that one of the shadows was the queen-woman he had seen in her sova at Slieve Echtge; not in her sleep now, but mocking, and calling out to them that were behind her: 'He was weak, he was weak, he had no courage.' And he felt the strands of the rope in his grabb yet, and went on twisting it, but it seemed to him as he twisted, that it had all the sorrows of the world in it. And then it seemed to him as if the rope had changed in his dream into a great water-worm that came out of the sea, and that twisted itself about him, and held him closer and closer, and grew from big to bigger till the whole of the earth and skies were wound up in it, and the stars themselves were but the shining of the ridges of its skin. And then he got free of it, and went on, shaking and unsteady, along the edge of the strand,