After years of being far ahead of all rivals, things have changed at Microsoft, where innovation has been replaced by bureaucracy and teamwork has been replaced by internal politics. This is the words of Satya Nadella, the future CEO of Microsoft. During the 13 years under Microsoft's current CEO, Ballmer, Microsoft has lost several valuable market opportunities in search, social, video, smart operating systems, smartphones, and tablets.

In the face of Microsoft's failure, Ballmer has been somewhat scrambled this year, proposing a "One Microsoft" strategy in which they will integrate all products into a single whole, rather than into a set of "islands", and they will change the way they interact with customers, developers, and key innovation partners to deliver more consistent information and product families. Marketing, advertising, and all customer interactions will reflect a company's strategy. Microsoft will also make changes to the way it organizes engineering-related work to reflect this strategy. There is a possibility that the end-of-the-line elimination system within the company may be abolished......

Microsoft's market capitalization has remained largely unchanged in Ballmer's thirteen years, and is now around $240 billion, which is known as the lost thirteen years. There are constant demands from investors for Ballmer's resignation, and of course, for a large company with a market capitalization of more than $240 billion, these opposition forces are not to be feared.

It was really surprising that Microsoft found Chen Shouzong at this time, after all, Ballmorke has not yet announced his retirement, and Chen Shouzong's three-year contract at Yahoo has only passed two years. In this case, Microsoft is really anxious.

Zhou Shi and Chen Shouzong chatted for a long time, and the final result was unknown, even if Zhou Shi chose this kind of thing, it would be equally difficult. After all, he doesn't have as much confidence in Yahoo as he does in Microsoft. Yahoo's market capitalization of $500 billion is the limit, but Microsoft has the potential to be worth a trillion dollars. What's more, Microsoft's success is almost a matter of course, with too many advantages. Whether it's money, technology, or talent, it's better than Yahoo in every aspect. Of course, the Microsoft office is in a state of affairs and infighting has reduced these advantages.

"Why would Microsoft want Chen Shouzong to be their CEO?" Zhou Shi asked Du Xiuyan, one of his aides.

In addition to the equity of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba, the value of its own business is only 5 billion US dollars, which is about the same as AOL, and it has more than 20,000 employees. Internal management is also very chaotic, and these weeks should always have a personal experience.

However, in the two years since Chen Shouzong became the CEO of Yahoo, he has cut product lines, reduced the company's operating costs, adjusted the company's business strategy, and achieved a major strategic transformation. In just two years, the users of 7 APPs exceeded 100 million, including more than 300 million users of Yahoo Messenger and 200 million users of Flickr, realizing the transformation of the mobile Internet.

He also presided over the acquisition of LinkedIn, a corporate social giant that pioneered Yahoo's growth in the social space. The appearance of DingTalk is another surprise......

The investment in Netflix, the entry into the video field, the acquisition of MIPS and the largest shareholder of AMD, occupied the opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence. It cannot be denied that most of this is Mr. Zhou's insistence, but Chen Shouzong's role in turning these ideas into reality is indispensable. Some people may even think that Mr. Chen played a leading role in this and was a very good reformer. Du Xiuyan

"!!" Zhou Shi discovered for the first time that Chen Shouzong turned out to be so powerful, so powerful!

Although Yahoo's three major divisions are artificial intelligence, big data and cloud computing, the most thorough is the transformation of the mobile Internet. Even Yelp's fastest growing user and data traffic is mobile. If Yahoo is a mobile Internet company, I believe no one will deny it, and Yahoo investors may be more receptive.

"There is no doubt that Mr. Chen has achieved success at Yahoo, and this may be the biggest breakthrough of his career!" Du Xiuyan

The market value of BlackBerry in the previous life was only a few billion dollars, and Yahoo is now almost 70 billion US dollars, and the influence of the two is also very different. Of course, at this point in time, it makes sense to say that Yahoo made Chen Shouzong, or Chen Shouzong made Yahoo, after all, no one has Zhou Shi's experience.

"Do you think I should let Chen Shouzong go to Microsoft or leave him behind?" Zhou Shi

"How much does Yahoo need for Mr. Chen?" said Du Xiuyan

Chen Shouzong's efforts, Zhou Shi saw it, when they first entered Yahoo, Zhou Shi and Chen Shouzong did not have enough prestige, with the strong support of Zhou Shi, a major shareholder, they relied on each other, plus recruited Marisa Mayer, Google's "big man", purged a group of people, promoted a group of people, and won over a group of people, which stabilized the situation in the shortest possible time. Up to now, Chen Shouzong has been recognized by the company. However, if Zhou Shi left Chen Shouzong, it would not work, and he would not agree to it.

What would Yahoo do without Chen Shouzong, and would the company's strategy change? What would Microsoft do if it got Chen Shouzong, and in which direction would it go beyond it? This is what Zhou Shi needs to consider comprehensively, and how to attack the opponent on the premise of preserving itself requires a lot of wisdom. However, Microsoft took the initiative to ask Chen Shouzong, no matter what the result is, it has nothing to do with him, right?

The next day, Zhou Shi found Chen Shouzong and expressed his attitude of not supporting and opposing him. If Microsoft is indeed sincere, and he is moved again, Zhou Shi will not force him to stay.

"Simon rest assured, Yahoo won't have any problems!"

"Don't talk about this matter yet, in case Microsoft fools you, the news is leaking here, which will be detrimental to your work at Yahoo!"

"Mr. Zhou, I ......" Chen Shouzong

"It doesn't matter, no matter what you choose in the end, I respect your decision. After all, your work and contributions at Yahoo are there for all to see. "Zhou Shi, he is the boss, are you afraid that the credit of his subordinates is too great? Zhou Shi, who naturally occupies an absolute advantage, really doesn't have too much to worry about, under the existing rules of the game, unless Zhou Shi is too incompetent, professional managers can't turn the sky upside down.

After appeasing Chen Shouzong, Zhou Shi once again worried about Yahoo's next CEO, since he was already moved and wanted to leave Yahoo, Chen Shouzong could stay at Yahoo until the end of his term at most, which is a self-evident thing. The people who poach Yahoo at Microsoft, Yahoo is not the person who can poach Microsoft, such as the Satya Nadella who has no ambitions.