There are no creeds in mathematics.
Nobody in the world is as good at making decisions as the Japanese.
The productivity of people requires continuous learning, as the Japanese have taught us. It requires adoption in the West of the specific Japanese Zen concept where one learns to do better what one already does well.
To make a living is no longer enough. Work also has to make a life.
There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.