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According to an equally lovingly preserved English translation of the prospectus, the purpose of Ibuka’s firm was to establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open-mindedness, and where engineers with sincere motivation can exercise their technological skills to the highest level. We shall, he pledged, eliminate any unfair profit-seeking exercises and seek expansion not only for the sake of size. Further, we shall carefully select employees . . . we shall avoid to have [sic] formal positions for the mere sake of having them, and shall place emphasis on a person’s ability, performance and character, so that each

Simon Winchester

According to an equally lovingly preserved English translation of the prospectus, the purpose of Ibuka’s firm was to establish an ideal factory that stresses a spirit of freedom and open-mindedness, and where engineers with sincere motivation can exercise their technological skills to the highest level. We shall, he pledged, eliminate any unfair profit-seeking exercises and seek expansion not only for the sake of size. Further, we shall carefully select employees . . . we shall avoid to have [sic] formal positions for the mere sake of having them, and shall place emphasis on a person’s ability, performance and character, so that each

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