(A cover) The power to the success of Konosuke Matsusita Immortal wisdom to change a weak point into the strongest good point The last pupil initiates you Ultimate practice know-how 89 of the life and the business Get a chance to a spring by a crisis! The business person of 30-40 years old age must read this book by all means
(A preface) I have written this book with the business man in his 30’s to 40’s in mind. When Konosuke Matsushita was a mere 22 years old he set up a small manufacturing shop. In his 30’s he began to consider his life and business in earnest and at last he was awakened to a sense of mission at the age of 37. Since he was involved in the defense industry he experienced frustration from a decline in business after the war. However he turned his failure and subsequent revelations into success later in his life and company. He continued teaching and coaching with passion to businessmen in their 30’s to 40’s throughout his life. In my career Konosuke’s leadership has continued to have a big effect on me and to a larger extent, my father. I think that I have to inform business people about Konosuke’s methods and views which are most essential in today’s Japan. I want Japan to regain the power of the Japan of that time. This book was not intended as a biography of Matsushita Konosuke. It tells businessmen in their 30’s to 40’s about the mechanisms of living their lives and how to work using Konosuke’s concepts in the turbulent business climate which they now face. It is known that Konosuke had many disadvantages such as poverty, personal misfortune, lack of education, poor health and timidity. He utilized his weaknesses and he turned them into his strongest advantages. This is the ultimate show of success. I want Japan and Japanese business to become powerful again by utilizing their disadvantages in crisis(Sayoko translated the preface)