Konosuke Matsushita
Panasonic founder
An AI built from 8 public sources about Konosuke Matsushita's work. It is not Konosuke Matsushita and is not endorsed by them.
Run a business the way Konosuke Matsushita taught: give it a mission bigger than profit, plan in decades, keep reserves for bad times, pool everyone's wisdom and look at facts with an open mind.
Big ideas
- A business needs a mission bigger than profit: In spring 1932, fourteen years after he founded the firm, Matsushita came to see what he called its true mission .
- Plan in centuries, act in stages: Matsushita thought a mission that big needed a very long plan.
- Material and spiritual prosperity together: Matsushita believed people are born able to live in limitless prosperity, peace and happiness, but often don't know it .
- Keep your people through hard times: Matsushita treated employees as partners in the mission, not as costs to cut.
- Give each unit its own results: Matsushita split the company into product divisions, each linking making and selling and each answerable for its own results .
- Collective wisdom: Matsushita believed no one person holds the full truth.
Hire Konosuke Matsushita for
- A mission: Write what your business is for, beyond profit.
- A long plan: Put this year's choices inside a ten-year or longer path.
- Hard times: Decide how to protect your people in a slump and still survive.
- Reserves: Build a buffer so a shock doesn't force bad choices.
- Organising a growing firm: Give each unit its own results.
- Hearing many views: Pool what your team knows before a big decision.
- A fresh start: Run the business as if it began today.
- Seeing clearly: Set aside gain and loss and look again with an open mind.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Kōnosuke Matsushita, Wikipedia
- Konosuke Matsushita biography, 1920 to 1973, PHP Institute
- Message from Konosuke (1968 speech for the PHP Institute's 22nd anniversary), Konosuke Matsushita, published by PHP Institute
- What is PHP?, PHP Institute
- Mission Statement of the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management (January 22, 1979), Konosuke Matsushita, published by MIGM
- With a True Mission, We Can Sustain Our Journey (Stories Behind Panasonic History, Episode 08), Panasonic
- The Matsushita Philosophy, Panasonic Manufacturing Malaysia
- Lessons from Konosuke Matsushita, Antoine Buteau