Right now, we all know the 'economic crisis'. Though gone, the echoes are still felt to this day. affect the way of life, is enormous. The upper class, falling. The middle to lower, helter-skelter. Damage we do not doubt. But ... imagine or not, the situation is more serious than the crisis?
In the year 1929, never happened 'global economic depression'. Wall Street plummeted out of control. The letter was nothing more worth of shares as ordinary paper.
At that time, General Motors was forced to lay off half of the 92,829 employees. Large and small companies went bankrupt. Millions of people became unemployed. Millions of people starving. Purchasing power and prices come down with jobs.
The night became dark. Panic happens everywhere. Shops that still survive, stop buying from the factory because the warehouse was full of unsold goods. At that time, Konosuke Matsushita Electrical equipment that produces the National and Panasonic brand recently completed factory and offices with a loan from Sumitomo Bank. Body condition often sickly from lack of nutrition that the days of childhood, coupled with working 18 hours a day, 7 days a week for 12 years of pioneering efforts. Only the spirit that made him live is still breathing.
With backs against the wall of the house, Matsushita hear reports of the economic conditions continue to deteriorate when the management came to visit. So what response? "Reduce the production of the half, but NOT to lay off employees. We will reduce production rather than by laying off workers, but by asking them to work in the factory only half a day. We will continue to pay wages as they receive now, but we will remove all holidays. We will ask all employees to work as possible and try to sell all the items in the warehouse. "
These orders to his men as strange to the economic depression itself. why did it happen?
In such situations, it is reasonable to the company to lay off employees for the sake of efficiency. But Matsushita for his belief in the virtues already established, for child survival and wife employees, finally able to produce a human breakthrough during the economic depression.
Matsushita virtue of the employees get the sweet 16 years later from an employee who had helped him. He reaped the fruit virtue itself. When World War II ended, General Douglas MacArthur who control Japan, arresting all the Japanese businessmen to stand trial for their involvement during the war.
In the period of the 1930s, Japanese businessmen, including Matsushita, a Japanese military regime of pressure that moment to produce weapons and other military logistics. Matsushita So, too, was arrested.
About 15,000 workers with their families to sign a petition for Matsushita defense! General McArthur was taken aback by the petition and ultimately freeing Matsushita.
No business owners and industry leaders before the second world war allowed McArthur returned to work except for Matsushita.
Thus Matsushita can continue to lead the company to become the world electronics giant, and had retired there in 1989 at the age of 94 years. When Matsushita died in 1990, not just the businessmen who mourn. President of the United States at the time, George Bush (Senior), was very sorry.
Matsushita successfully established itself past the threshold generally businessmen who are always hungry and thirsty filthy lucre money and become a person who humanist and philosopher who is very concerned about humanity. For Matsushita, the money is not the goal. Although the need of money but money is not everything. For him, money is the means to do some good.
That's why, he never bites people, cheat, or take other people share. Matsushita believes that if we are not evil and continue to do good then evil will be away from us and the good will protect us.
What about us?
It's good enough today?
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