A Dialogue Between a Mathematician and Toyota’s Chairman: Think, Think, and Think Again

Fujio Cho and Toshiyuki Kobayashi
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Fujio Cho: Toyota Motor Corporation
Toshiyuki Kobayashi: The University of Tokyo and Kavli IPMU, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences

A chapter in What Mathematics Can Do for You, 2013, pp 1-6 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Kobayashi (K): I believe that there are a variety of things that are fundamental but rarely perceived, that are important but too obvious to attract our attention. Do you think the value of honesty for a company is such a thing? I surmise that a sound company does not have to think about “the value of honesty” so often because people there just take it as a matter of course. On the other hand, dishonesty—needless to say fraud, but also pretending to know everything without performing investigations, which I also consider a kind of dishonesty—seems to result in a long-term loss even though it may produce a large short-term gain.

Keywords: Comfortable Ride; London Stock Exchange; Toyota Motor Corporation; Blade Break; Japan Railway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54346-6_1

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