This app is Konosuke Matsushita's philosophy of success: the trajectory and quotes of the god of management written in 10,000 characters.

1. Konosuke Matsushita is a Japanese businessman, inventor and author. He is known as the manager who built Panasonic Holdings in a single generation, and is known as the "god of management."

2. Konosuke is involved not only in Panasonic's success, but also in ethics education and publishing activities, and established the PHP Institute. He also devoted himself to training politicians and established the Matsushita School of Government and Management.

3. Konosuke was born in Wakayama Prefecture, and grew up in a difficult situation where his family emigrated due to his father's failure during his childhood. He demonstrated his business acumen early on and joined Osaka Dento (currently Kansai Electric Power).

4. Matsushita achieved success through his own inventions and business expansion. He is known for inventing light bulb sockets and battery lamps for bicycles.

5. Konosuke incorporated Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. after the company was founded, and moved its headquarters and factory to Kadoma City. His management philosophies and convictions were passed on to employees, and the importance of water supply philosophies, fair profits, and cash prices were emphasized.

By installing this app, you will have the following features:

* You can learn the success story and management philosophy of Konosuke Matsushita.

* Learn important management lessons and know-how through his quotes and sayings.

* Get inspired to develop ideas and strategies for success.

* By learning from Konosuke's experience, you will be able to improve your self-development and management skills.

* By using this app, you can acquire basic management principles and practical methods. By learning Konosuke's management philosophy and approach, you can acquire knowledge and strategies for business success.

* By learning about Konosuke's success stories and how he overcame difficulties, you can learn how to deal with setbacks and the importance of perseverance.

* This app is especially suitable for managers, entrepreneurs, business people and anyone who wants to demonstrate leadership. Learn Konosuke's secrets of success and management principles to improve your business career and organizational performance.

* However, it should be noted that Konosuke's historical background and business conditions may differ from those of today. As such, some ideas and strategies may not be directly applicable to modern business. Please use good judgment and adapt the content of the app to your own business environment.

* In addition, success depends on various factors and individual abilities and efforts. Just installing this app does not automatically guarantee success. Success requires effort and practice.

Konosuke Matsushita (November 27, 1894 - April 27, 1989) was a Japanese businessman, inventor, and writer. His rank is Shosanmi.

He is a manager who built Panasonic Holdings in a single generation. Another name is "God of Management". In addition, he established the PHP Institute and embarked on ethics education and publication activities. In his later years, he established the Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, and devoted himself to training politicians.

Career

upbringing

Born November 27, 1894 in Chidanoki, Wasa Village, Kaiso District, Wakayama Prefecture (currently Negi, Wakayama City) as the third son of Masakusu Matsushita and Tokue, a small landowner. It is assumed that the surname Matsushita was used because the house was located under a large pine tree.

Around 1899, his father failed in the rice market and went bankrupt, so the family moved to Honmachi 1-chome, Wakayama City and started a geta store. However, my father had no business acumen and closed the shop. Konosuke dropped out of elementary school in four years, and at the age of nine he was apprenticed to the Miyata hibachi store. After that, he moved his apprenticeship to Godai Bicycle. When he was a fifth-generation bicycle apprentice, he met Shinjiro Torii, the owner of Kotobukiya, the origin of Suntory, and made him his management mentor for the future. This experience later became the impetus for the establishment of Panaracer. During his apprenticeship at a bicycle shop, customers often sent him to buy cigarettes. At that time, rather than going out to buy them one by one, if I bought them in bulk, I could have cigarettes immediately and the unit price would be cheaper, so I used this to save some change. However, this caused an antipathy from fellow apprentices, and the shopkeeper recommended that he stop buying in bulk, so he stopped buying in bulk. From around this time, along with showing his business acumen, he also came to realize that it was not good to win on his own.

Impressed by seeing the streetcars introduced in Osaka City, he aspired to work in the field of electricity. At the age of 16, he joined Osaka Dento (currently Kansai Electric Power) and worked there for seven years. At that time, light bulbs were wired directly into the house, and removing the light bulb was a dangerous task that required specialized knowledge. In 1913, at the age of 18, he entered the evening preparatory course at Kansai Commerce and Industry School. In 1917, he retired from Osaka Electric Light Company.

company founding

Matsushita around 35 (photographed in 1929)

At his home in Ikaino, Tsuruhashi-cho, Higashinari-gun, Osaka (currently 2-chome, Tamatsu, Higashinari-ku, Osaka), his wife Mumeno and his younger brother Toshio Iue (in charge of sales, later managing director, founded Sanyo Electric after the war) Independent) and two friends, a total of five people, started manufacturing and selling the same socket. However, sales of the new socket were not good, and two of his friends left Konosuke. After that, the attachment plug and the plug for two lights became a hit, so the business got on track.

Along with business expansion, in 1918 Matsushita Electric Appliances Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (currently Panasonic Holdings) was founded in Daikai-cho, Nishinoda, Kita-ku, Osaka (currently 2-chome, Daikai, Fukushima-ku, Osaka). Following on from light bulb sockets, he invented lantern-type removable bicycle lamps (began using the "National" trademark from 1925). In 1929, the name was changed to Matsushita Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and at the same time, the company established its Principles and Creed.

Kadoma relocation

Designating 1932 as the first year of wisdom, held the 1st founding ceremony on May 5th. instructed to Also, in order to expand the business, the head office and factory were moved to Kadoma-mura, Kitakawachi-gun, Osaka Prefecture (currently Kadoma-shi), where there is a lot of land. At that time, the area from Kadoma City to Hirakata City was delayed in development because it was regarded as a dark gate from the perspective of Osaka City, but he pointed to a map of Japan that stretched long and narrow in the northeast and said, ``Most of the Japanese archipelago is a dark gate,'' and went ahead. . In 1935, it was incorporated as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

During World War II, he cooperated in the production of munitions by order. Matsushita Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. was established in April 1943, and under the leadership of Toshio Iue, a former shipping company president, 56 250-ton class wooden ships were built by the end of the war. Next, in October of the same year, Matsushita Aircraft Co., Ltd. was established near Dantsu Airfield, and under the technical guidance of the Air Technical Arsenal, seven prototypes of the Myojo, wooden training dive bombers with a reinforced plywood structure, were produced by the end of the war. Although it made it to test flights, one aircraft soon disintegrated in mid-air, resulting in a disastrous failure due to a lack of awareness of the absolute quality and reliability required of an aircraft.

Immediately after the war, the company was designated as a limited company by GHQ, and many of the officers, including Konosuke and Toshio, were expelled from public office as war collaborators. Konosuke, who took the Iue brothers out of the company in the form of a goodwill division, refuted, saying, ``Matsushita was built in a single generation, and it did not become big through acquisitions, nor does it belong to a zaibatsu.'' On the other hand, in November 1946, he established the PHP Research Institute and gained a reputation by embarking on ethics education. The labor union thanked GHQ for using internal reserves and avoiding layoffs as much as possible, so the company's designation as a restricted company was soon lifted, and in 1947 he returned to the post of president. .