Leadership in Action: Lessons from Panasonic
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https://doi.org/10.70301/JOUR/SBS-JABR/2025/13/1/1Keywords:
Humility, Wisdom, Leadership, Leadership Development, Matsushita, Innovation, PanasonicAbstract
A great CEO and industrial leader, the Japanese Kōnosuke Matsushita CEO of Panasonic created a 200-year strategic plan that was carried out by his successors at Panasonic efficiently and effectively. In this article, we aim to decode how Matsushita’s leadership grew the Panasonic company and present his big leadership lessons at this Japanese multinational electronics company for executives and senior executives across the globe. This article particularly addresses the current research gap on Panasonic’s unexplored and mysterious leadership by recounting the experience of Matsushita’s victories and failures and showing how he has controlled events and turned threats into opportunities at Panasonic. The how of decoding the DNA of leadership secrets at Panasonic company mostly comes from our consulting work and observations with its headquarters in Sydney Australia, and Torrance California.
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