Management

Businesses must continue to grow indefinitely. To do this, companies must be lean and well-toned.

For a company, "muscle" represents assets, such as people, goods, money, and equipment used to generate sales and profit. On the other hand, superfluous assets, like unsold inventory or idle facilities, are considered fat. By rigorously trimming wasteful assets and maximizing the use of effective assets, companies can cultivate a "muscular" constitution that enables them to perpetually grow.

Paraphrased from Kazuo Inamori's Management Philosophy Dalian Report Meeting (October 23, 2011)