Qing Zhiyuan asked Iwata Satoshi to come to the company to take on the management role, and the future CEO is not to completely delegate power, after which he will still retain the position of chairman and also the company's top decision-maker.

As the day-to-day manager of the company, Satoshi Iwata exists as the company's decision-maker and executor, which is equivalent to the general manager.

One is the chairman and the other is the general manager.

In this way, Qingzhiyuan will be relieved from the tedious affairs and management routines, and will be entrusted to Iwata Satoshi to do, and he will focus on the company's general direction, the formulation of grand strategies and the operation of important projects.

Qingzhiyuan believes that their future cooperation will be very pleasant.

……

In May 1998, a month after Qing Zhiyuan invited Satoshi Iwata to dinner, Neon still could not get out of the haze of the Asian financial crisis.

The yen has depreciated sharply and has broken through the 130-point mark, and countless people have a cry of sorrow in their hearts.

This means that the wealth of many people, especially those engaged in import and export business, as well as real enterprises, has shrunk significantly.

And several major leaders in the neon game industry have the heart of retiring in the storm, and the heir is unresolved, becoming the most worried time bomb in the hearts of countless people.

It is not clear whether it is a time bomb or not, and it is unknown whether the future direction of the company will become worse or better.

It can only be said that whether it is Ren Heaven, Sega or Sony, there is great uncertainty before the successor is finalized, and the future is a blind box, and you never know what will come out next.

The first to announce the answer was the Sony Group.

What no one expected was -

Before retiring, President Norio Oga made a very bold but bold decision to appoint Nobuyuki Idei as the new president of Sony, bypassing the 14 senior directors.

President Norio Oga will retain the chairmanship and then hand over the CEO to Nobuyuki Idei.

Although he still retains the position of chairman and can exercise the highest decision-making power and personnel appointment and dismissal, if there is no particularly big controversy or decision beyond the scope of Nobuyuki Idei's ability, Norio Oga will most likely be a hands-off shopkeeper and hand over the company's power to Nobuyuki Idei.

However, for the board of directors, although Nobuyuki Idei is the CEO and the CEO, the most important of these CEOs is the word "execution".

Usually, when making decisions, Nobuyuki Idei is basically not hindered, but when there is a major problem, it is necessary to make a decision through a board meeting.

For example, in his previous life, Nobuyuki Idei was also the CEO of Sony Group after Norio Oga, and he once put forward a crazy idea-

Acquisition of Apple Inc. in the United States.

At that time, Apple had not yet grown, and the reason why Nobuyuki Idei bought Apple was simple: he believed that Apple had the potential to make electronic products, and if it was acquired, it might be able to launch the next generation of digital electronic devices.

Idei was optimistic about the broad prospects of combining Apple's PC technology patents with Sony's hardware, so he proposed to buy Apple, which was still in trouble and its market value had plummeted.

It was only because the idea was too avant-garde and Idei's foundation was unstable that the acquisition proposal was quickly rejected.

It can be seen from this incident that although Nobuyuki Idei is the CEO of Sony, his power is not as great as that of Ichōndo of Yamauchi, even if he wants to do reforms and mergers and acquisitions......

Many large-scale decisions are still decided by the board of directors, so no matter how forward-looking and creative the proposal made by Nobuyuki Idei at that time seemed to be forward-looking and creative in the future, the board of directors could only reject it if it did not pass it.

If the acquisition is approved, maybe the future of Sony and the future Apple will be another story.

……

In his previous life, Nobuyuki Idei was appointed much earlier, becoming CEO in 1995.

In this life, Norio Ohga was in good physical and mental condition, and he didn't let go until he was 68 years old this year.

However, the letting go was not so complete, and he just handed over the permanent management to the new CEO, Nobuyuki Idei, and retained the position of chairman himself.

There are several considerations for doing so.

The first is that Nobuyuki Idei's foundation is not stable enough, and the direct promotion from the last director to the chief executive of the group will definitely be subject to a certain amount of controversy, and Miki Schulhoff, the president of North Rice, will definitely be the first to disagree.

In order to be able to calm the field and let Nobuyuki Idei take over smoothly and get through the initial period, Norio Oga must continue to serve as chairman until Nobuyuki Idei can fully control the situation, and he will transfer the position of chairman to Idei.

The second reason is also because Idei's foundation is unstable and has been very controversial, so Norio Oga retains the chairman is also a wait-and-see, if Nobuyuki Idei fails to lead Sony to go better, and his ability is not enough to convince the public and become Sony's new helm, then Norio Oga will have to implement his own personnel appointment and dismissal rights and promote a new CEO.

……

Anyway, in May, Norio Ohga made this decision with great difficulty.

In an interview with reporters,

Mr. Norio Ohga explained it this way,

Sony's president must be a "tech-savvy man," and since Sony owns the world's largest film and music companies, he must also be a "software-savvy man."

And those who meet these two conditions are only out of the well.

But in fact, the situation of Idei, who took over Sony at this time, was not ideal, and it could even be described as internal and external troubles.

Due to Sony's expansion over the years, it has spent a lot of money on mergers and acquisitions, acquired many companies, and at the same time spent on various aspects of the project.

So don't look at Sony's annual financial report is very high, and it earned almost $20 billion last year.

In fact, Sony's debt is already quite terrifying, reaching a staggering 1.8 trillion yen, which is equivalent to wiping out all the revenue, and the company still has $14 billion in debt to pay.

There are constant contradictions within the company, the factional struggle within Sony is very fierce, no less than that of Sega, each department is working independently, engaging in games, music, film and television, all of them don't care about the life and death of other departments, they just hope that they can develop better, the company's resource allocation itself is limited, and under the snatching, it will inevitably lead to departmental infighting.

And Sony Neon and Sony Beimi are also full of contradictions.

The current president of North Rice, Miki Schulhoff, is a good friend of Akio Morita, that is to say, in terms of seniority, he is older than Nobuyuki Idei, and there are many such board members in the company.

When Norio Ohga was in power, he couldn't quite hold down Schulhoff, let alone Nobuyuki Idei?

Therefore, Nobuyuki Idei was appointed CEO of the company at this time, which seems very glorious on the surface, after all, Sony is an international group, the world's top company, and it is a dream of many people to become the helm of such a company.

However, given the current situation of Sony, Nobuyuki Idei can only be said to be trying to survive in the cracks.

It's a mixed blessing.

……

When Sony announced that Nobuyuki Idei would succeed Norio Oga as its new CEO, Sony's stock price plummeted.

Countless people in the outside world are not optimistic about this guy.

Nobuyuki Idei has no age advantage, and now he is 61 years old, and Norio Oga was ridiculed for finding a guy who is similar to himself.

And Nobuyuki Idei is not convincing in terms of qualifications, although he has worked at Sony for 38 years, and he was only at the bottom of the table before.

In fact, the outside world is full of huge doubts about whether such an elderly head can cope with Sony's future challenges.

However, from another point of view-

Now that Sony has a new CEO, the succession turmoil has finally come to an end.

Let's not talk about whether this newcomer has talent, at least the current Sony Group has a new leader, so it is a relief for all manufacturers in the industry who deal with Sony.

With goals and people to talk to, at least you have someone to talk to, and you can also understand how to better cooperate and compete with Sony in the future.

Don't run around like headless flies.

So before that, no matter how many people were not optimistic about Nobuyuki Idei and didn't like him, they all came to visit with gifts, invited them to dinner, and wanted to continue to talk to him about future cooperation.

And competitors are beginning to analyze the preferences and abilities of the new CEO and make better responses.

……

Now, only Sega and Ren Heaven remain unresolved.

However, rumors that Hayao Nakayama and Pu Yamauchi are going to retire have not diminished at all.

Given their age and physical condition, countless people are worried about the future of these two companies.

……

At the same time, in the president's office of Ren Heaven.

Satoshi Iwata, president of the HAL Research Institute from Tokyo, is sitting in front of Pu Yamauchi.

Today, Yamauchi was extremely happy about the arrival of this young man.

During this time, he was not only tormented by Ren Tian's affairs, but also had a headache about his future successor.

After meeting Satoshi Iwata, Pu Yamauchi can finally relax a little bit, change his mind, and not think so much about the future.

The two of them chatted for a while.

Yamauchi Pu was a little puzzled, "Why did you think of coming here today?" I haven't seen you come to me before. ”

Satoshi Iwata's body stiffened, hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and stood up.

Yamauchi looked at him with some surprise.

At this time, the expression on Iwata's face became extremely serious, as if something terrible was brewing.

Yamauchi's heart jumped heavily for no reason.

He seems to have seen similar expressions, and the last time was when Yokoi Junhei took the blame and resigned.

It is an expression of reluctance and determination.

"Iwata, you ......"

"President Yamauchi, I'm actually here to say goodbye to you."

"Huh?" Yamauchi opened his mouth, a little stunned.

"Probably not a farewell in the sense of the word, but ......"

Satoshi Iwata had already made a decision, but when it was time to say it, he realized that the lines that he had thought of a long time ago had now become blank.

Sometimes people get excited and incoherent about really important things, no matter how well prepared they are.

It was only then that he realized that it was all useless.

All the lines are high-sounding excuses, even if they are used to comfort people, but they can't be made up at this time anyway.

So Iwata Satoshi could only go all out and tell the truth.

"Actually, I've resigned from the HAL Institute."

"Huh?!"

Yamauchi was shocked, completely unaware that such a thing would happen.

"Why so suddenly?"

"Well, it might have been a bit sudden for you, and I'm sorry I didn't tell you before that." Satoshi Iwata bowed to Yamauchi and apologized, "But this is a decision I made after a month of careful consideration. ”

What qualifications do I have to let President Yamauchi come to advise me, this kind of thing, Qing Zhiyuan's invitation to me, I will be scolded by President Yamauchi just by opening my mouth, right?

And no matter how close the relationship between Ren Heaven and the HAL Research Institute is, they are always two different companies.

So Satoshi Iwata can only make his own decisions.

Because no matter what, as long as he talks to Yamauchi, he will definitely want to stay.

But what reason did President Yamauchi use to keep him?

Satoshi Iwata felt that he should not throw the problem to President Yamauchi, which was his own problem and his life.

You need to make your own decisions about your own life.

So after careful consideration, Satoshi Iwata came to Kyoto alone.

Just like when he came here and asked President Yamauchi to help HAL get through the difficult time.

Only this time, when he saw President Yamauchi again, he found that the old man was much older and haggard than he had imagined.

Even in the process of chatting, Yamauchi Pu cheered up and pretended to be fine, but Iwata Satoshi could feel the fatigue in his eyes.

It shouldn't have been a mess for Ren Heaven anymore, especially at this time.

However, Satoshi Iwata also has someone who has to respond.

On the other side, there is a young and handsome person, waiting for his answer.

Deep down, he seems to identify more with Qing Zhiyuan, who is creative and passionate.

Perhaps the appearance of Qing Zhiyuan itself is the answer he wants.

That's all.

……

In this life, Yamauchi Pu's relationship with Satoshi Iwata is not as deep as in the previous life.

In his previous life, Satoshi Iwata has been involved in the production of Rentendo since 95, although he is not an employee of Rentendo but it is almost counted, and he is most deeply involved in "Pokémon Gold and Silver"

However, now this game is not in the hands of Ren Heaven at all.

Satoshi Iwata naturally has no reason to participate in the development, he is in Tokyo and Yamauchi Pu is in Kyoto over the years, and there is not much intersection between them.

Butterflies flapped their wings, causing a tsunami.

This is a series of chain effects, and this chain effect is brought by Qingzhiyuan.

……

"Yes."

Satoshi Iwata said with a little choked up, "It was a difficult decision for me to make, but I have already thought about it, and I may not be able to cooperate with you as the president of the HAL Research Institute in the future." ”

Satoshi Iwata himself couldn't tell why his voice was trembling when he spoke.

As soon as I opened my mouth, I felt the urge to cry.

Maybe it's because it's too difficult to talk about, in the face of someone who once had the grace of knowing him, to terminate the cooperation and become his competitor from now on, just thinking about it makes me feel a little unbearable.

The man who turned him from a small clerk in the HAL Research Institute to president was Yamauchi.

On the other hand, maybe it was because he felt that Qing Zhiyuan could not be disappointed, and if he missed this time, he might never meet the second Qing Zhiyuan who understood him so well and trusted him and was willing to give him a bigger stage and opportunity.

Just thinking about this anticipation made his heart tremble.

Satoshi Iwata's fingers were twitching against the seams of his trousers.

My heart was shaken terribly.

But the reason for the vacillation is precisely because he has already made a decision.

Before coming here, Satoshi Iwata had already cut off the back road for himself.

Not only did he resign as president of the HAL Institute, but he had actually signed a contract with pokeni.

Qing Zhiyuan also issued him an offer very generously and quickly, just waiting for him to join.

This is already an immutable fact.

The reason why I am standing here today is because Satoshi Iwata feels that he should say to President Yamauchi no matter what, whether it is to say goodbye or to give an explanation, he must come over and make it clear in person.

……

President Yamauchi's eyes were confused, and it took a long time for him to react.

His dull eyes moved, as if he couldn't believe what Satoshi Iwata had just said.

But when he looked at Satoshi Iwata, he actually had the answer in his heart.

This is not to consult his advice or opinion, nor to ask him to stay, Iwata this guy is here to say goodbye.

Inform him that he has left.

That's it.

Sizzle......

President Yamauchi took a deep breath and spit out again.

A smile squeezed into his face, "So, have you found a good place to go?" Where are you going? ”

"That ......" Satoshi Iwata opened his mouth, a little hesitant.

"Sony?" Yamauchi Pu asked with a smile, "If you go to Sony, I want to bless you, judging from the current situation, the future should be Sony." ”

Satoshi Iwata still didn't speak.

Yamauchi was stunned.

It took two seconds for him to react like he had just woken up from a dream.

“pokeni！！！”

"Damn it!"

Pu Yamauchi, who was still very calm, suddenly burst into a rage, stood up and clenched his fists, and didn't look at Satoshi Iwata, just walked to the window and looked at the sunset outside the window uncomfortably.

"Why pokeni?!"

Any company, better than Pokeni, is more acceptable to him!

But why pokeni?!

Damn Qing Zhiyuan!

How did he come up with the idea to find Iwata?

Obviously, this guy Iwata is not from Renten.

But...... Although Iwata is not from Renten, he hit Yamanuchi the hardest.

At this moment, his brain buzzed, and he only felt that the world was dark.

The whole world is spinning and bleak.

Yamauchi stumbled and almost fell to the ground.

"President Yamauchi ......"

Fortunately, Satoshi Iwata reacted quickly enough and immediately helped him.

……

Yamauchi recovered slightly from his dizziness, pushed Satoshi Iwata's hand away, and sat down in his leather chair.

", you don't have to come back."

Yamauchi Pu held his forehead with his hand, only to feel his temples beating violently.

The sound of the heartbeat is also amplified.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

"President Yamauchi."

Satoshi Iwata took a step back, took a deep breath, and looked at the angry old man in front of him.

Although he was scolded by Yamauchi, there was no anger in Satoshi Iwata's heart.

On the contrary, he felt that the Yamauchi Pu in front of him was a little pitiful.

"President Yamauchi, maybe my going to Pokeni is not a bad thing for me or for Renten."

Satoshi Iwata wanted to speak and stopped, and the rest of the words were not too straightforward.

But the meaning is actually already in place.

In business, where is there an eternal enemy, what if? In the future, when Ren Heaven cooperates with Pokeni, he may be the most important link.

Yamauchi didn't respond, just waved his hand.

"Well, then, I'll take my leave."

Satoshi Iwata swallowed a mouthful of saliva, picked up his briefcase, and turned to walk out the door.

……

Well?

Yamauchi jerked his head up.

Looking at the back of Satoshi Iwata leaving, there was a moment when Pu Yamauchi wanted to reach out and stop him.

Keep this person behind.

Maybe the position of president can also be given to him.

But......

In the end, Yamauchi's fingers only trembled slightly, and he didn't make any action.

Perhaps deep down, there was still a trace of concern that prevented him from making that impulsive decision.

Satoshi Iwata walked to the door, remembered something, and turned his head to look at the old man sitting in the chair with infinite emotion.

He bowed deeply to Yamauchi.

"Take care."

……

————————————————————————

Push book: "The Prince of the Han Dynasty"

As Liu Bang's son, the happy story of his father Jackie Chan

There's one more chapter tonight (end of chapter)