Leadership DriveAdvantage
88← All People
Known For
entrepreneurialtechnologicalindustrial
Trait Constellation
Risk ToleranceDual-edged
88Independent ThinkingAdvantage
82Opportunity SensingAdvantage
82Proactive AgencyAdvantage
82DecisivenessAdvantage
80Achievement DriveAdvantage
85CollaborationAdvantage
85ExperimentationAdvantage
78AdaptabilityAdvantage
80PersuasivenessAdvantage
78Conflict ToleranceDual-edged
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Sources
- Encyclopedia.com — "Akio Morita" (Business Leader Profiles for Students)
- EBSCO Research Starters — "Akio Morita"
- CES.tech (Consumer Technology Association) — "Akio Morita, Sony and the Power of Inventive Leadership"
- Commoncog — "The Sony Walkman" (Case Library)
- Time (magazine archive) — "Akio Morita & Masaru Ibuka"
- Akio Morita (with Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Shimomura), Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony (Dutton, 1986)
- John Nathan, Sony: The Private Life (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
- Springer Nature — "Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita, Soichiro Honda, and Takeo Fujisawa" (business-history case-study chapter)