In a company where jobs were for life, it created competition that made Sony the great company it is, ... It created artificial competition, which you needed.
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Software has been designed inside those independent silos, with a tendency for repetition. Now we have the ability to coordinate software development... We have time with the PSP, and the video revolution, so that nobody else will slip by us.Howard Stringer
The loyalty within Sony is quite extraordinary, and that's a remarkable thing. Some of that has to be sustained because it's part of the Sony spirit.
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Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
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We are going to achieve our goals by breaking down the existing silo walls and eliminating the highly decentralized structure we've maintained in the past.
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Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
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