Akio Morita vs. Bertolt Brecht
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Akio Morita
1921 – 1999
Akio Morita was a Japanese entrepreneur and co-founder of Sony along with Masaru Ibuka.
"...the remarkable thing about management is that a manager can go on for years making mistakes that nobody is aware of, which means that management can be a kin…"
Bertolt Brecht
1898 – 1956
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
"Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and …"