As the car winds its way up the winding mountain road, it occasionally turns its head and looks down from the window to see the shrinking city of Shizuoka in the field of vision, and farther away is the blue ocean that is the same color as the sky.

"Nice view. Kazuo Hirai smiled and admired for a moment, this place is adjacent to the sea, the spring breeze blows all over, the branches and grass stalks pull out the emerald green, the mountains are not brown and yellow, and the afternoon sun is like an emerald mountain, it does have a quiet and lively beauty.

Seeing that he really liked it, Muto, who came with him, suggested, "Then this year's summer vacation, I'll choose this place for you?"

"Ha Luha, it's not necessary, it's not necessary. Waving his hand, Kazuo Hirai smiled, but there was not much joy in his expression.

Japan is not a place to stay for a long time.

Sighing, he no longer had the heart to enjoy the view, and rubbed his forehead.

In many cases, the victory of the war does not bring the hearty refreshment, but the bitterness of killing a thousand enemies and causing eight hundred self-losses, just like the situation he is currently exposed to. The main purpose of returning to Japan this time is naturally to follow CEO Howard Stringer and announce the victory of the American gang against the Japanese gang.

According to the meaning of the Japanese gang, I hope that Hisakumi Yoshiki Ken will retire with dignity, this small request, Stringer, who has already won the stage, will certainly not stop it, but the problem is that the engineers in the group do not meet this point, and they also hope that after Kukutsuki Yoshiki Ken retires with dignity, he will not leave Sony, but restart the employee retirement and transfer to the consultant system. Became a senior advisor to Sony Electronic Entertainment.

In fact, the system was abolished by Stringer last year.

Stringer was tired of constantly explaining to the engineers the need to reinvent Sony's corporate culture, and he couldn't and didn't want to understand the bureaucracy entrenched in Japan's corporate culture, and it was simply impossible to reintroduce the retirement to consultant system — according to Sony's rules and regulations, consultants are entitled to be rewarded, have the right to have buses, drivers, secretaries, and the entire Sony Group has up to 1,000 executives in the next ten years. If you continue to enable the advisory system. At least a quarter of these executives will be a heavy burden on the company, and Sony will have a team of 50 advisers, at least until Stringer bans the advisory system.

But more difficult, as the opposition. The loss of power by Yoshiki Ken did not represent the overall defeat of the Japanese Gang. The company creed established by Akio Morita and Dai Ibuka. Still ruling Sony, the huge team of engineers united by their concept of "technical skills" still lacks a good opinion of the American gang, who do not understand technical skills. Moreover, they also have a strong character leader - Ryoji Nakabo!

In Japan, the position of president is not like that of the United States or most Western countries, it is not just a vague title, but the de facto number two person in the company, responsible for specific affairs similar to the chief operating officer, but with greater real power and absolute control over the middle and lower levels of the group.

After taking office in '05, Stringer has been planning a complete reshuffle of Sony's management structure, but his decree has been extremely difficult to implement, and middle and low-level managers and staff have even publicly opposed his restructuring plan.

Why did those engineers dare to demand the reintroduction of the retirement-to-consultant system? It was not for the support of Ryoji Nakaba that they had nothing to fear.

This time to kick out the Kutsu Yoshiki Ken, in fact, it was just a crushing victory, within Sony, the strength of the American Gang is still insufficient, and Stringer still needs to unite with the strength of the representative of Yoshiharu Nakaba in order to seek development and push the executive order.

After yesterday's phone call with Ahn Jun-hyuk, Kazuo Hirai attended another meeting at which Mr. Stringer said he was prepared to take back the presidency — it took him a year to pay his tuition fees to figure out the importance of the president of a Japanese company — and in exchange, the overall work of the electronics business had to be transferred to Ryoji Nakaba.

Electronics business is the top priority of the future reform and development of the group, 05 years, Stringer and Nakaba Yoshiharu established the future Sony reform codename: "Japan Plan"!

The core of the plan, on the one hand, is preparing to complete the layoff of up to 10,000 people by the end of 07, and divest some non-core businesses (such as Sony's chain restaurants, beauty salons, financial service institutions, etc.), so as to reduce high operating costs, on the other hand, it is seeking a way to organically combine Sony products, can be based on the digital field, and make the Sony brand fully effective.

At present, Sony has more than 1,000 electronic products, but many of these products are conflicting with each other and incompatible with each other, such as electronic players that have lost the market, there are 3 different departments developing their own products at the same time, but in fact they can't sell at all, but consume a lot of resources.

There are also game consoles, DVDs, televisions, digital cameras, camcorders, laptops...... Stringer's deputy, Wiscenthal, who is in charge of strategy and mergers and acquisitions, once said in an interview: "I have 35 Sony products at home, and they have 35 charger ......"

Although a mature and healthy electronic enterprise should launch a number of brands, its main purpose is that a brand is responsible for a level of market, rather than forming a competitive relationship between the same grade and price.

In past meetings, Kazuo Hirai found that Stringer always talked about Apple in private, because Apple was perfect for brand integration.

Any Apple product is compatible with each other, and they have a common online platform.

In Stringer's future plan, he hopes that Sony's three core businesses can be organically combined, at least they should form a beneficial role in promoting each other, rather than tearing each other down, and he also wants to create an online distribution channel similar to iTunes, in his vision, this channel should be like iTunes, the movies, music and other entertainment content he prepared for Sony, perfectly grafted to other Sony products.

Players, PS, laptops, and much more, etc.

But now. In order to promote personnel reform, he had to assign the most important electronic business coordination work to Zhongbo Ryoji, because if you want to complete product integration, you must first carry out a major operation on the management structure and corporate culture of the enterprise.

Kazuo Hirai understands Stringer's dilemma, but understanding is not the same as acceptance. If it is really up to Ryoji Nakaba to take over the electronics business. Then, as a pawn of the American Gang, he will have a very difficult life in the future!

Regardless, Sony Electronic Entertainment is still part of the electronics business!

But. And what can be done?

Yesterday's meeting. In the face of Stringer's subtle questioning and reassurance. He was silent, but all his defiance was limited to. In the eyes of outsiders. Stringer was perhaps a rather enlightened and humorous old Welshman, who always said that he was not stingy in promoting young people, and he was always gentle in defending his image, saying that the most difficult thing about reforming Sony was that it had "a relaxed, pleasant, free working environment...... Wholeheartedly committed to the service of users, putting profit motives in the second place".

He didn't want people to think that he had turned Sonny into a monster of the jungle, and from these words, we seemed to see just a gentle, feather-loving old man, but people ignored the ruthlessness and ruthlessness of this old Welsh man who did not understand Japanese when he set out the cancer on the giant's body!

The 50-year-old advisory system was abolished, and as many as 10,000 employees were dismissed when they said they were dismissed, and he ruthlessly kicked out any individual or group that stood in his way to reform, and Kazuo Hirai did not think that he would be an exception.

Even the day before yesterday, when Sony officially announced a unified opinion to the outside world, announcing the "retirement" arrangement of Hiroshiki Kuzuki and the appointment of Kazuo Hirai, Stringer once proudly said to the media, "...... I think he (Kazuo Hirai) will be my right-hand man, and he will bring new developments to electronic entertainment companies......"

Stringer didn't want people to label him as a "strong man", so why did Kazuo Hirai want to be labeled a "traitor" by the Japanese gang?

He was also Japanese, and if he had a choice, he didn't want to turn to Stringer to gain power. But there are not so many choices in life, the reality is that to drive away Kutsumi Yoshiki Ken, he "made a lot of contributions", the Japanese gang represented by Masato Morita hated him to the bone, and Ryoji Nakaba was also quite dissatisfied with him, the day before yesterday, when Sony officially announced that he was about to take over as CEO of Sony Electronic Entertainment, he also announced another resignation.

Hiroshi Yoshioka was promoted to senior vice president of Sony, taking over the VAIO (Sony notebook brand) and TV business, which are currently the focus of Sony's electronics business.

The car jolted slightly, and by chance it turned its head again, and the city of Shizuoka below the mountain became smaller and smaller, and the winding mountain road winded behind it and was also rugged in front of it.

For him, the future and ambition are also like this mountain road, whether it is forward or backward, it extends only dark and deep, looking back can not find the beginning, forward can not see the end, the jungle is like a cluster of strange shadows, distorting strange impressions on both sides of the road, even if there is light, what shines is also bizarre, secluded and sinister.

Such a faint depression lasted until the car drove to the villa halfway up the mountainside, and in the distant field of vision, the villa standing on the edge of the cliff was surrounded by lush trees with branches and leaves, the sun was shining, the shadows of the trees were swaying, the grass was low, and the mountain breeze was blowing cool.

Behind the shadows of the trees, under the faintly upturned eaves of the villa, Ahn Junhyuk was already waiting outside the gate, and when he saw the young man from afar, Kazuo Hirai took a deep breath, tried to put a smile on his face, got out of the car, and walked over quickly.

Two months ago, he was qualified to let Ahn Jun Hyuk greet him like this, but now two months later, he can't bear it! (To be continued......

PS: Resume the update, in the next few days, it will be updated with 60,000 words anyway, I hope it won't be unlucky again...... I really can't stand it......