産業がもたらす発展や、人と人とのつながり、企業が果たすべき役割、松下幸之助の信念が詰まった一冊。　The essays included here reflect Konosuke Matsushita’s convictions on topics ranging from many ways industry can help improve living conditions in local communities and environment, to people-to-people diplomacy, the benefits of sensible competition, perspectives on natural resources, and even ideas on integrating ex-convicts back into society.

パナソニック創業から六十年にわたる事業体験を通して商売のコツ、経営のコツを披露したビジネスパーソンへのメッセージ。 The Million-Dollar Knack for Successful Management summarizes Matsushita’s timeless essentials of the knack of management gleaned from more than sixty years of business experience. As you will learn from Matsushita, “Grasping the knack of management is worth a million dollars.”

How did Konosuke Matsushita concretely deal with the full range of functional areas and concepts of corporate management, including basic management principles, organization, product development, production, sales, accounting, and personnel? This volume attempts to answer those questions by presenting a compendium of good management. It is a carefully considered selection of Matsushita’s thought on these issues, designed to provide a reliable compass for negotiating the route to management success even in the most difficult of business.(『経営のものさし』の英文版。経営理念・経営者・責入者・組織・体制・商品開発・製造・販売・営業など職能的分野における考え方をすべて開陳)

『人間を考える』の英文版。社会がグローバル化しさらに混迷が深まり、人々が自らを見失いつつある現代。今こそ、「人間とは何か、いかにいきるべきか」を問いただす時だろう。9歳から実業一筋に歩んできた著者が、様々な人からの意見と自らの経験を交え「人のあり方」を提唱したロングセラーの書。 “Advocating a New View of Humanity” by K. Matsushita, founder of Panasonic He engaged in business for more than 80 years, since he was nine years old. He thought about man and society through his long business life and experience as well, seeking peace, happiness, and prosperity for the world. This book was originally published in Japanese in 1972, and will give us hints and ideas to the question “What is man and how should he act in society?”. He said, “I have limited my discussion in this volume to what seems to me to be the most basic and important aspects of man. I sincerely hope that this book will make a small contribution to the realization of peace, happiness and prosperity.”

“経営の神様”と呼ばれた松下幸之助は、講演先や雑誌・テレビのインタビューで、数多くの質問を経営者やビジネスマンから受けている。本書は、その中から実践で役に立つと思われるやり取りを、「経営者」「経営理念」「人材」「組織」「先見性と決断」「経営危機」「商売」の項目に分類してQ&A方式に編集したケーススタディ集である。「人材育成のコツは?」「組織活性化のポイントは?」「不況克服の心得は?」など、時代を超えた課題について、松下幸之助がその質問に答えてくれる一冊。『松下幸之助の経営問答』の英文版。“K. Matsushita, Founder of Panasonic, Answers the Questions about Your Management” The founder of the Panasonic Group called “King of Management” received a large number of questions from audience at lecture meetings and in interviews with TV stations and magazine publishers.

自叙伝『私の行き方　考え方』の英文版。自らの生い立ちから丁稚奉公、松下電器(現パナソニック)の創業、そして会社が進展していく昭和8年までの数多くのエピソードを交えながら事業成功の秘訣を語る半生の記。 The Early Entrepreneurial Life of the Founder of Panasonic In the late autumn of 1904, Japan was caught up in the Russo-Japanese War. All alone, a nine-year-old boy left his hometown for Osaka to begin an apprenticeship. His mother, in tears, watched him board the train at　Kinokawa Station in Wakayama. Her lonely form as the train pulled out of the station was a scene that was to be deeply engraved in his mind forever.　Struggling in the big city, he lived through his days with hope for the future.　This was the start of the career of Konosuke Matsushita, who went on to live out a life filled with lofty aspirations.

短編随筆集『道をひらく』の英文版。運命を切りひらくために。日々を新鮮な心で迎えるために――。人生への深い洞察をもとに綴った短編随筆集。40年以上にわたって読み継がれる、発行520万部超のロングセラー。Sold more than 5 million copies over the past 50 years in Japan alone, this long-standing book gives readers enduring insights by K. Matsushita into how to live a meaningful life as a human being. Translated into various languages already, he wished it to be sold more than 100 million copies all over the world. His time-tested thinking will surely be a useful guideline when making decisions in the course of your life.

As a global business leader with strong marketing and international background, she has worked at Panasonic, Novartis and Quintiles (Japanese, European and American global companies, respectively). For Panasonic global web initiative, she set up panasonic.net changing from matsushita.co.jp/en. As the head of marketing of Quintiles Japan, she contributed to businesses in 3 customer segments; Japanese companies going global, foreign SMBs entering the Japanese market and global MNCs operating in Japan. Leveraging such experiences, she is consulting foreign SMBs entering and doing business in Japan and Japanese companies going global. 【PROFILE】 Megumi Oyanagi As a global business leader with strong marketing and international background, she has worked at Panasonic, Novartis and Quintiles (Japanese, European and American global companies, respectively). For Panasonic global web initiative, she set up panasonic.net changing from matsushita.co.jp/en. As the head of marketing of Quintiles Japan, she contributed to businesses in 3 customer segments; Japanese companies going global, foreign SMBs entering the Japanese market and global MNCs operating in Japan. Leveraging such experiences, she is consulting foreign SMBs entering and doing business in Japan and Japanese companies going global.

現代のマネージャー全てが直面する経営における課題を解決するヒントとなるエッセンスを、松下幸之助の著作『商売心得帖』、『経営心得帖』、『決断の経営』、『経営のコツここなりと気づいた価値は百万両』から選びぬき、まとめた一冊。This work presents a selection of 71 essays culled from experiences described in four books Konosuke Matsushita published in Japanese. Encapsulating the essence of Japanese management and presenting the author’s business ethos and management ethic, Not for Bread Alone is the ideal reference for anyone running a business. It provides a balanced and thoughtful look at the ethical and business issues facing every manager today.