Word: akio
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...tool not for top-down corporate repression but for bottom-up individual empowerment and creativity, a lifelong article of faith to which Apple and Pixar today bear living tribute. Before launching into his evangelistic spiel from the Flint Center stage last week, Jobs briefly eulogized Sony founder Akio Morita, grandfather of the consumer-electronics industry, who had died just a few days earlier. "He expressed his love for the human species in every product he made," Jobs said in a clear, quiet voice. You get the feeling he couldn't imagine a better epitaph for himself. --With reporting by David...
...DIED. AKIO MORITA, 78, co-founder of Sony and the man most responsible for making "Made In Japan" a tribute; of pneumonia; in Tokyo (see EULOGY...
...late 1991, AKIO MORITA, a colleague on the Trilateral Commission and a longtime friend, told me he was concerned about the state of U.S.-Japanese relations. In the wake of a series of high-profile acquisitions of American properties, including Rockefeller Center, by Japanese companies, Japan bashing had become somewhat of a national sport in the U.S., and a tone of superiority had crept into many public pronouncements emanating from Tokyo. Akio proposed that the two of us attempt to counter this trend through "dialogue" that would be taped for TV and then published in Japan. His purpose...
...empire --Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Co. --Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft --A.P. Giannini, architect of nationwide banking --Ray Kroc, hamburger meister --Estee Lauder, cosmetics tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...
...20th century is indeed the American century, but how could your list of movers and shakers have just one non-U.S. resident? The inclusion of Sony's Akio Morita almost seemed like tokenism--not that I would deny his place in history. But what about the industrialists who set about restoring the economy of Western Europe after the ravages of World War II? What about the founders of some of the conglomerates in the rest of the world? It was not only the U.S. that influenced the economy of the 20th century. PHILIP ANDREW QVIST Gauteng, South Africa...