Consider crunch time as a time of opportunity!
To nurture and retain people, you must accept the notion that you yourself will one day no longer be needed.
The ideal organization is one that would not suffer if anyone, even the president, were no longer there.
A mid-term business plan is the means for taking action to realize your vision.
If you think of your company as a small business, it will stay small. If you think of your company as a venture business, it will grow.
The role of executives is to take care of the overall management. They should not be doing the work of senior managers.
No company president passes the blame onto others. Anyone who does that immediately becomes just an ordinary person.
Responsibility is not something to take, but to fulfill. (Masando Sasaki, Shintoist)