520 [Akio Morita's Ambition]
Tokyo, Japan - Mount Fuji
Mount Fuji is known as the sacred mountain in Japan, also known as "Furong Peak", or "Fugao" and "The Forty-Douji Takayama". Since ancient times, the name of this mountain has often appeared in the traditional Japanese poetry "Wayo".
The Fuji name originated from the Hokkien language, which now means "eternal life". The original pronunciation comes from the language of the Japanese ethnic minority Ainu people, meaning "mountain of fire" or "ghost of fire". The mountain is beautifully conical, famous all over the world and is a sacred symbol of Japan.
At this time, deep in the dense forest, three Akita dogs were running, and the poor hare in front of them was running away in panic.
Turn left and right, and finally the gray hare saw a small earth hole. She was delighted and rushed to the ground.
Just then, a gunshot was heard.
The hare's entire body was carried by bullets, rolled onto the ground.
Three Akita dogs barked wildly, circling around the blood-covered hare. One of them opened his mouth and picked it up, and ran backwards. The other two looked like bodyguards, protecting each other, flying towards the master, seeking credit.
The black muzzle was filled with white smoke, and the choking smell of gunpowder made the four followers next to him itchy noses, but they did not dare to rub their noses or say anything. They just stood quietly, looking at Akio Morita who was holding the gun and hitting the target.
Akio Morita lowered his gun, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, asking, "Did you hit it?"
The person next to him hurriedly said, "I have already hit it! The president is really good at shooting!"
Others are also busy flattering, and their marksmanship is as good as gods.
Akio Morita smiled and threw the shotgun to the person next to him. He took the wet wipe and wiped his hands, saying, "It's not that I have good marksmanship, but this rabbit is unlucky and hit my gun."
He paused and said, "I am old. I know how good my marksmanship is. I know myself. Presbyterian's eyes can't even see the top of Mount Fuji clearly. How can he see such a small rabbit clearly?"
The people next to him were embarrassed and dared not speak.
Akio Morita looked at them, and a trace of splendor appeared in his turbid eyes, "Although I am old, I am not that easy to fool. If you think you can stay by my side safely by just saying good words to me, then your idea is wrong. There are only two types of people around me, one can help me expand my territory, and the other can help me protect my foundation. There have been many people who have been playing horses since ancient times, and they have never been short of them, so I don't care about it!"
At this time, the three Akita dogs were already holding their prey in their mouths - the unlucky rabbit came back, obediently putting the rabbit in front of Akio Morita, and then circling around him.
Akio Morita signaled the people around him to give them rewards, so the Akita dogs enjoyed their rewards happily, not caring about what these humans were saying.
"Did you see it? They know how to be satisfied. If you have merit, you will reward you. This is my principle - do you want to be a hunting dog that I reward, or a rabbit that relies on luck to make a living?" Akio Morita glanced at the people around him with contempt.
The people around him were silent.
In fact, people around you dare not speak out because Sony's business in the United States is too bad, which makes the old man have a weird temper recently.
At first, Tadao Kimura went to the United States and said that he would stabilize and expand the business of American companies and take Sony to a higher level. Who knew that this time mentioned steel plates.
It is said that the young man named Song Zhichao was a business genius who was rare in a century. He joined forces with the popular king Mike Jackson to promote his Vanke VCD, which made the whole world know the brand "Vanke".
Next, Kimura took great pressure in the United States and began to implement Sony's price reduction promotion strategy. He originally thought that this time he could step on the newly emerging Vanke, but unexpectedly, Song Zhichao used a "sword to go wrong". If you lower the price, I will increase the price and conduct limited sales, and also sell tens of thousands of units in the United States. It is conceivable that for those vanity Americans, buying a VCD is so vain.
After successfully taking the wrong steps, Song Zhichao took the third step and won the game by surprise. He actually created a farce of "selling kidneys and buying Vanke", which caused Vanke VCD to break the constraints of limited quantities and surged again.
After studying Song Zhichao's series of methods, Akio Morita knew that Tadao Kimura, whom he sent, might not be the opponent of this young man. A person can do everything step by step and calculate business to the extreme. Who is the opponent?
This is just like playing Go - Akio Morita likes playing Go very much, and is also a master of sixth stages. You take three steps at one step, but others take ten steps at one step. How can you fight with others?
However, what made Akio Morita most uneasy was not Kimura's continuous defeat against Song Zhichao in the United States. After all, VCD is a new product, and there is still a long way to go to completely replace Sony's video electronic products - during this period, Akio Morita could completely re-design the chessboard and compete with the young man named Song Zhichao.
What made Akio Morita sleepless at night was actually the American Columbia Film Company acquired by Sony.
Akio Morita is a person with a bad temper, but he is also a person who dares to admit his mistakes. At several shareholder meetings, Akio Morita openly admitted that his acquisition of Colombia was a huge "miss".
In the words of Akio Morita himself, "The huge national vanity blinded my eyes and made me only see the pride of acquiring Colombia, but not the series of loss deficits behind!"
Especially now, almost every year Sony makes profits around the world, it is used to fill the big hole of Colombia's losses, so that Sony, which was originally profitable, can only maintain "event" performance every year.
This is simply irony!
As the famous king of Sony and a Japanese tycoon who competes with the God of Panasonic's business, Akio Morita was ridiculed by his colleagues in the industry for this wrong acquisition case, making him laugh at as an American nanny and an absolute fool.
hateful!
It's really hateful!
But this is a fact.
From 1989 to now, from 1992, it has suffered serious losses for three consecutive years, which has made Akio Morita unable to hold on. Many shareholders still say they have been rumored to sell Colombia.
But if you want to get rid of the blame, you must have a takeover, but who will be the buyer?
No one who does business is fool, not to mention that Colombia is huge and cannot be swallowed by ordinary companies - the acquisition amount of billions of dollars was even a little hesitant at the beginning.
Looking at all the large companies around the world, Akio Morita felt powerless for a moment, and getting rid of the burden of Colombia became his biggest "heart disease".
Just then, someone called him.
Chapter completed!