Cho believed that the jettisoning of lifetime employment in many other Japanese companies was a serious danger to the social stability of his country. Layoffs were a dishonorable practice that Toyota would only consider as a last resort.
Fujio Cho was born on 1937-02-02.
Japanese
Fujio Cho
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Toyota Motor Corporation
Dr. Taiichi Ohno, who would dramatically change the destinies of both Cho and Toyota.
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Tokyo University, law degree, 1960
President and chief executive officer, Toyota Motor Corporation
Cho was much more affable, personable, and low-key than the blunt-spoken Okuda.
In 1999 Okuda retired, and Cho became the second consecutive nonfamily Toyota president.
No sooner did Cho return to Japan than he was introduced to his next mentor, the new Toyota president Hiroshi Okuda.