Chapter VI
"Anjun!" With his assistant, Kazuo Hirai walked a few steps quickly, and Ha Luha smiled and walked quickly to An Junhyuk, who had already greeted with a smile, and shook hands heavily.
Although the afternoon sun is brilliant, it is still warm, the sea and sky in the distance are vast, the vast sky, the white clouds are rolling in the blue color, the mountain wind blows from the other side, the hair is messy, looking at the young man opposite him in the bright sunshine, Kazuo Hirai sighs secretly.
Every time he communicates with Ahn Junhyuk, he has to adjust his mentality, when they met for the first time, he was still in a dominant position, but now, he is dealing with each other as an equal.
Probably because of the difference in mentality, he found that compared to the last time they met, Ahn Junhyuk's temperament became more and more calm, and although he was smiling, he couldn't hide the depth at the bottom of his eyes.
Kazuo Hirai shook his head secretly, put down some thoughts in his heart, and the two exchanged a few words at the door, then smiled and walked into the villa.
For Ahn Jun Hyuk, it doesn't matter what the purpose of Hirai Kazuo came this time, and even in the subsequent exchanges, the conversation between the two did not involve any substantive issues at all, most of them talked about the scenery of Japan, exchanged industry information with each other, and sometimes talked about music.
The theory of "Zhuangzi" believes that the "friendship between gentlemen" should be as light as water, and there is some such taste between the two, of course, "Zhuangzi" also has a fallacy, there is no absolute "light as water" or "sweet as water" in human interactions, and gentlemen are not necessarily indifferent. Villains are not necessarily willing, and most of the contacts in the mall are made up of villains, doing gentlemanly things.
Once interests are entangled, they are worth a thousand words, and for the union of interests, the "villain" sometimes knows how to manage the relationship with each other better than the so-called "gentleman", and is more patient to deepen the connection between the two sides.
After receiving a call from Kazuo Hirai yesterday, Ahn Jun-hyuk took a closer look at Sony's recent developments, and Ken Hisakumi Yoshiki is about to officially retire at the conference in June. At that time, Kazuo Hirai took over as CEO of SCE (Sony Electronic Entertainment). Naturally, he saw it, and he also saw another news announced on the same day, about Hiroshi Yoshioka's promotion to senior vice president of Sony, in charge of the electronics business.
Two news releases on the same day. The meaning expressed is quite intriguing. If his guess was correct. Kazuo Hirai is not having a good time at Sony at the moment.
It's not too hard to understand.
Stringer's American gang has a natural and artificial weakness, on the one hand. After all, Sony is a Japanese company, from the basic composition to the spiritual concept, are deeply influenced by Japanese culture, as an outsider, it is difficult for the American gang to effectively integrate the two different values, which also leads to the conflict between the American gang and the Japanese gang on the concept of basic values.
On the other hand, as a leader, as the chief architect of reform, Stringer was unable to adapt to Japanese culture, and according to Ahn Junhyuk's news check, Stringer only had one week of working time per month allocated to the Japanese headquarters.
Leaders themselves cannot be treated fairly, and if they want to replace one corporate culture with another in the reform, then it is natural to encounter resistance. Stringer and his staff are all Americans, and they are not in charge of specific affairs, so they have more than enough to advance and retreat, but a "rebellious" executive like Kazuo Hirai can easily end up in the conflict between the two cultures.
Ahn Jun Hyuk didn't believe that on the day Sony announced Kazuo Hirai's appointment, he promoted Hiroshi Yoshioka without any intention of containment.
However, this kind of thing does not need to be said clearly for the time being, the less urgent Hirai Kazuo is, the greater the interests he wants to unite, and Ahn Junhyuk's plan itself involves not just simple cooperation, so it is not a bad thing for the two sides to understand more.
On the same day, Kazuo Hirai and Ahn Junhyuk chatted until the evening, when the sun was sinking, Jisoo and Lin Xiujing, who had been shopping together for most of the day, came back, and the nanny who accompanied the two of them out of Lu was mixed with Lin Xiujing, Jisoo followed in a wheelchair, and the two came in laughing, followed by the doctor and Cha Yuancheng who was carrying a large bag.
Seeing that there were guests in the living room, Xiujing and Jisoo were stunned, and Kazuo Hirai, who guessed who the two were, also stood up politely.
"Hirai-kun, let me introduce, this is my lover Lin Xiujing, and this is my sister Ahn Ji-so. Ahn Jun-hyuk introduced with a smile, and then said to Xiujing and Ji-so: "Xiujing, Ji-so, this is Mr. Kazuo Hirai of Sony Electronic Entertainment." ”
"Hello, Mr. Hirai. The two greeted Kazuo Hirai, Jisoo's expression was a little stiff, she was not used to being with strangers, but Lin Xiujing, after a short period of stunned, her mood quickly adjusted, and she stepped forward to shake hands with Kazuo Hirai generously: "Yesterday, I heard Junhyuk say that Mr. Hirai was coming, but I went to the mall at the bottom of the mountain before, but I forgot the time and did not entertain well, Mr. Hirai, please bear with me...... Sister Sachiko, you don't have to take care of me, please help pour a few cups of tea. ”
"Heh, Mrs. An is welcome. Hearing that Lin Xiujing's Japanese was not good, Kazuo Hirai naturally switched to English.
After a few more pleasantries, when the nanny Sachiko brought the tea, Lin Xiujing confessed that she was physically inconvenient, called Jisoo upstairs together, and gave up the space in the living room to the man to talk.
Politely waiting for the back of the female dependent to disappear into the corner of the living room, Kazuo Hirai sat back on the sofa and smiled at An Junhyuk opposite: "My sister is well-behaved, my wife is virtuous, An Jun is really envious of others! Speaking of which, why do I think Mrs. Zun's name is a little familiar?"
Ahn Joon-hyuk smiled.
At this time, the assistant, who had been standing behind him, leaned over to him and whispered something in his ear, and after a while, Kazuo Hirai nodded suddenly, probably knowing the origin of Lin Xiujing.
After all, the name Lin Xiujing, as long as people who have carefully studied Ahn Junhyuk, are somewhat impressed, not to mention that the two once collaborated on a TV series, which caused a stir at the beginning, and it was also the SJ battle of Ahn Junhyuk's appearance in the business world, which started with Lin Xiujing's contract problem.
Listening to the assistant's introduction, although nothing was revealed on the surface, Kazuo Hirai was slightly surprised in his heart.
He used to be the same for many people. I have always thought that Lin Xiujing's contract problem is just an excuse for Ahn Junhyuk to make trouble. Under this pretext, he first pulled the IHQ dog into the water, and then followed the dog chain, and pulled the dog's owner into the battle group from the bystander's situation, causing SKT to rush to the battle, taking care of one and losing the other, and finally losing the initiative.
For this. He had sighed before. Ahn Jun-hyuk, who is in his early 20s, looks immature, but he does everything to achieve his goal, and his wrist is whimsical, deep and spicy.
Behind this accolade. There is no trace of vigilance and awe. After all, Ahn Joon-hyuk caused too much damage. The aftermath of the impact is still lingering, and the entire mobile phone industry in South Korea has collapsed because of it. Several major brands in addition to the financially strong Samsung can barely maintain, even LG was forced to withdraw from the most important Chinese mainland market this year - Weikai and Pan-Thai experience, resulting in the bankruptcy of Korean mobile phone brands in China, after Pan-Thailand, Korean mobile phones in China can hardly find a bank willing to lend, and no dealer dares to pay for the goods before picking up the goods, which further increases the operational burden of Korean mobile phones, and the impact on the return of funds is almost fatal.
In order for J.H to get involved in Pantai, he dares to throw his hand and pull down an industry, and everyone will be wary of dealing with such a ruthless person.
But now it seems that the previous assessment is not entirely correct...... At least, there seems to be another possibility of the real cause of the SJ war......
Thinking about it, he glanced at Ahn Junhyuk, who was on the other side, who was tall, picked up the cup, and slowly took a sip of tea.
For a moment, a silent sigh:
…… Is he a ruthless hero, or a husband who simply loves his wife?
There is no answer, and it is just in vain to want to see the other person's mind.
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Kazuo Hirai stayed until late before leaving, although Ahn Junhyuk kept him for dinner, but he didn't have much time to spare, and he took out an afternoon to rush to Shizuoka, and he had already pushed some entertainment, and Sony had a senior executive party at night, so it was naturally impossible for him not to attend, so he had to regretfully leave.
Ahn Jun-hyuk personally sent him to the bottom of the mountain and gave him enough courtesy, after all, the stage of understanding each other and not talking about substantive topics is only temporary, and the current exchange, on the one hand, must maintain a distance to avoid looking down on each other, and on the other hand, it is necessary to release some goodwill signals, so as not to take it too much and cause people to be disappointed and disgusted.
For more than a week, it was pretty much the same.
Kazuo Hirai basically takes time to come to Shizuoka every other day, and even if he can't get out of his body occasionally, he will call to say hello, and the most recent one, perhaps to show the weight of Ahn Junhyuk in his heart, he will also take his wife who happens to return to Japan with him.
The topics discussed between the two have also gradually shifted from the chores that they agreed with each other at the beginning, to work, and even some core embodiments.
Gaming, Internet, Market Analysis, Future Trends, Personnel Management, Business Philosophy...... Everything, everything, through his words, Ahn Junhyuk, who is on the outside, slowly understands the most pressing problems facing Sony, the direction Stringer wants to reform, and the situation that Kazuo Hirai is currently facing.
Oops!
The problem of Sony that he knew before,It has always been from the financial statements announced by Sony,And the official release of the dynamics to understand the analysis,Although many people in the outside world sing down,But in the known display,Sony has not reached the point of exhaustion,Its TV business is still creating profits,The former color TV giant, even if the pace of transformation LCD is slow,But the success of the color TV field for many years,Throw retains huge intangible capital,Especially brand appeal,"Sony"The word,Or the selection criterion in the eyes of consumers。
Its crisis comes from within, from the Engineer Group.
Since the establishment of Sony, it has been dominated by the hardware values of engineers under the planning of Akio Morita and Ibuka, which is no stranger to Japan and even the world, and some media call it "industrial manufacturing model", the most distinctive feature of this model is the "scale, quality, and cost" of the product!
This model in the industrial age, is popular in the world of weapons, no market can prevent high-quality, low-cost goods large-scale impact, but the times have changed, with the new generation gradually growing, the noise of industry is gradually away from people, now the rule of the earth, is not the height of the black chimney, stupid and stupid heavy machines, but information, fashion, digital!
The current world is the post-industrial information age.
People's aesthetic standards are changing, people's consumption concepts are also changing, the hardware values of engineers pay attention to, the excellence of quality and cost, and the neglect of creativity and fashion, which have been out of the times!
Of course, more importantly, in order to make engineers the dominant force in the group, Akio Morita and Dai Ibuka have spared no effort to deepen the voice of engineers and make them independent of each other as restrictions.
As a result, almost all of Sony's engineer-led technical departments are now in competition, and the tendency to mountaineering is quite strong.
Kazuo Hirai gave an example to Ahn Jun Hyuk - Sony's camera department never provides its latest technology to the mobile phone department, because the camera department also has some camera phone brands that cooperate with outsiders, and if they provide the latest technology to the mobile phone department, they are just supporting roles, and they can't get benefits, but they sell to joint ventures with outsiders, but they can create a beautiful bill.
Sony's imaging department has never taken the initiative to cooperate with the TV department to provide its own best products, such as the game department, the mobile department, and the entertainment department...... It's the same for all departments, for a variety of reasons, whether it's competition with each other, or executives don't agree with each other, or they just don't bother to do it.
This kind of ridiculous thing is simply incredible in Ahn Jun-hyuk's eyes, even if his J.H, Kwon Bo-geun and Park Young-jun are incompatible, but the cooperation between the music department and the entertainment department has never been a problem, even if South Korea's Hyundai Group, which is famous for its civil strife scandal, has never stopped cooperating when the relationship between the automobile and heavy industry is at its worst.
But for years, Sony has been tearing each other down like this.
When Kazuo Hirai told Ahn Joon-hyuk about this example, it was the second time that negotiations between J.H Music and Sony Music (Tokyo) broke down again, the first time, Sony Music grasped the issue of shareholding and did not let go, and this time, it was to bite and sign all the singers under J.H Music. Ahn Jun-hyuk didn't understand why Sony Music was so ugly, and it was only when he heard Kazuo Hirai say those strange examples.
I was probably implicated...... The current head of Sony Music is Masaio Morita, a representative of the Japanese gang, and the other party learned about his secret affair with Kazuo Hiratai from some source...... Those harsh conditions, most of them are deliberate!
The moment he wanted to understand the truth, Ahn Jun-hyuk really didn't know whether he should smile bitterly or laugh at himself, and he was shot while lying down!
But then again, if Sony wasn't so messy, how could he choose it as a partner......?
PS: Some time ago, bad luck continued, and the wealth was constantly broken, and I was not in the mood to write and conceive the plot, and there were a lot of hands, and now the code chapter is very difficult, and everyone forgive me for being late~