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

In: What Mathematics Can Do for You

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  • Fujio Cho

    (Toyota Motor Corporation)

  • Toshiyuki Kobayashi

    (The University of Tokyo and Kavli IPMU, Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences)

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.

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  • Fujio Cho & Toshiyuki Kobayashi, 2013. "A Dialogue Between a Mathematician and Toyota’s Chairman: Think, Think, and Think Again," Springer Books, in: Yoshikazu Giga & Toshiyuki Kobayashi (ed.), What Mathematics Can Do for You, edition 127, pages 1-6, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-4-431-54346-6_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-54346-6_1
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