Top of the Great Era

Zhou Buqi didn't believe that Lao Ma would invite him to listen to some master's lecture, and he definitely wanted to use this as an introduction to do something.

His breakfast is very simple, a fried egg and a glass of milk, and then he goes to work in the company.It's already 10 o'clock in the morning, and there is no breakfast or no breakfast.

On the way, he called Boss Ma.

"Are you looking for me?"

"Yes, when are you going back to China? There is something going on here..."

"I'm in the capital!"

"Really? That's such a coincidence!" Boss Ma laughed a few times, "It just so happens that I need to find you here. You know that Nikko's resurrection is such a big deal?"

Zhou Buqi said "Yes", "I have met Kazuo Inamori twice."

Boss Ma didn't look out at all, "No wonder, then you have to go."

Zhou Buqi said angrily, "What's the matter?"

Such as Sohu's Lao Zhang.

But now it's 2011, and technology has been highly developed.

Zhou Buqi said: "The Go world in Japan is still the same as it was 100 years ago. It regards Go as a grand view of the universe, and there is a certain belief pattern. It is played in a metaphysical belief system. In fact, there are also some A certain belief in Go, but it has been gradually disenchanted, combined with high technology, result-oriented, playing chess is mainly about winning chess, rather than seeking the way out of the blue.”

Although Boss Ma is a university teacher, he is usually too busy with work. The key point is that he can’t stay idle. He likes to participate in non-work things, which makes him even busier. Do not read books.

Boss Ma is one of them.

But most of it is social.

Zhou Buqi said: "There was a time when Japanese Go players were very good, crushing Chinese and Korean players. Do you know when it was?"

But he didn't like it.

Especially after Ziweixing develops Rokid-go and sweeps the Go players all over the world with a crushing posture, Go will be completely secularized, and the metaphysical elements will be squeezed out.

Zhou Buqi was not in the mood to talk nonsense with him, "In the current Go circle, South Korea is the best, and our country is also very strong. The strength of China and South Korea is basically the same, but Japanese Go is no longer good. Any player from China and South Korea can single-handedly go. Pick the entire Japanese Go world."

Later, Boss Ma's fall from the altar was largely related to this.You pursue the ultimate "business way", and the higher you go, the greater the conflict with other "way".If the Dao competes, it will be life and death.

"Disenchantment, I know, I've heard people say it."

Not only can the two communicate on an equal footing, but they can also ridicule, tease and even directly insult each other, and they can also have some deep spiritual communication.

So is Go.

Kazuo Inamori's rescue of JAL can be regarded as the most spectacular and shocking business case among global enterprises in the past year.

Boss Ma is quite familiar with this. This was the most intense event when he was young. "Ah, that was big news in the 80s. At that time, Japanese Go was so good that just sending anyone over could beat Chinese and Korean players." Kill them all. Later Chess Sage Nie came out, and we barely have the qualifications to compete with them."

This is the fundamental reason why Japanese Go is gradually surpassed and crushed by China and South Korea.

Zhou Buqi then asked: "What about now?"

Japan Airlines is a giant company in bankruptcy.

It is difficult to turn a big ship.

They are still adhering to the traditional metaphysics view.

This kind of discussion, if faced with ordinary people, may not be interesting at all.

"Floating, floating, if you want to talk about learning, I might as well learn from you. The Japanese system is not mainstream in the world's business philosophy... By the way, can you play Go?"

There are not many real entrepreneurial friends, you can count them with one slap.

It is comfortable to communicate with powerful people, Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Yes, that's what it means. Japanese Go is too metaphysical, and Japanese business is the same, full of many metaphysical theories. The most typical one is this Kazuo Inamori. "

Drinking tea is called "tea ceremony"; flower arrangement is called "flower way"; brush writing is called "calligraphy".

"Recently, Ziweixing is going to develop a product about Go, so I learned a little bit by the way. If you don't understand, let me tell you, don't think about being a teacher every day to educate me."

"A little bit, what's the matter?" Boss Ma was a little dazed, not knowing what the kid was going to talk about again.

"In the temple."

"Oh, so what?"

The same goes for Mr. Tsushima.

For example, Lenovo in China fell into a huge loss, and Mr. Liu came back. For example, Focus was left out by the market, and Mr. Jiang returned to take charge of the overall situation.There are also many foreign ones, such as Mr. Dell coming out again to save the troubled Dell company, the great Schultz coming back to take charge of Starbucks, Yang Zhiyuan coming back to take charge of Yahoo, including Google’s Larry Page, in fact, he also wants to go out to lead Google out of social media dilemma.

Zhou Buqi is a good person with a kind heart. He even publicly announced that he would donate all his personal shares in Ziwei Star to give back to the society.

So what about foresight?

Because there were many blind spots in human cognition in the past, and many things could not be understood. They all needed such false and real things to assist in understanding, commonly known as metaphysics.

Boss Ma was really interested in this set, "The combination of Japanese Go and the Japanese economy must be due to some intersections from a higher perspective."

"Not sure, are you still in the mood to pay attention to Go?"

If Zhou Buqi told him this somewhat absurd theory, he might not even listen to it.But Lao Ma is different. What he is best at is looking down on the world from a higher angle.

Boss Ma believed that he was telling the truth, "Well, Mr. Zhou, you continue to preach and teach."

Zhou Buqi's reaction was rather cold.

Didn't Lei Jun fool him into drinking half a catty of white wine?The number of times you are fooled by Boss Ma is even more, but you must not underestimate the heroes of the world.

Boss Ma said: "Our Entrepreneur Club invited him to come to China for a friendly visit to teach him some principles of running an enterprise and doing business. At that time, he will give a lecture in Shenghe School."

Zhou Buqi wanted to mention him as a teacher, and said: "I have met Kazuo Inamori two or three times. Once I was very impressed. I went to visit him with several old guys from the Japanese business world. You know he lives in where?"

"Are you drifting away?" Boss Ma said earnestly, assuming a teacher's attitude, "The biggest obstacle to a person's progress is to stop learning. You have made some small achievements in the business field, but you can't Too arrogant? You are so young, you must take the initiative to learn."

In fact, in the past few years of the economic crisis, there have been many cases of "skilled people coming out to save companies".

However, none of these "comeback" cases can compare with the legend of Kazuo Inamori.

Known as the "God of Management", Kazuo Inamori is the top theoretical entrepreneur in Japan and even the world, and has influenced countless people.Boss Ma also admired his theory very much and was deeply affected.

"If there is, then there is, what are you doing?"

China and South Korea are actually fine. Go is a sport.Japan is very strange. It is greatly influenced by Japanese traditional culture, and it seeks Taoism in various things.

With the advent of modernization, more and more metaphysics are gradually being eliminated by the times.

"Uh……"

All walks of life are highly specialized, and the applicable space for metaphysics will become smaller and smaller.Only in fields that humans cannot understand temporarily and science cannot explain temporarily, can metaphysics have a living space.Once the scientific development breaks through, the disguise of metaphysics will be broken at a touch.

Boss Ma was very embarrassed.

Boss Ma disagreed, "But you can't deny that his theory of business management is very effective. Do you know how he saved Japan Airlines?"

"Well, he has been practicing Zen in the temple since he retired. When I asked him about the concept of business management, his set of arguments was as mysterious as taking a Buddhist class."

Even influenced by Japanese business culture, it has a bit of metaphysics, and has a style of "I am a god and everyone is an ant".

It stands to reason that Zhou is not a foresight, he is more qualified to laugh at business people all over the world as ants.

Now that Zhou Buqi has reached his current status, everyone around him is friendlier than the last, everyone greets him with a smile, everyone is a "friend" now, and there is no longer the "villain" who jumped out from time to time in the early years.

"Haha." Boss Ma laughed a few times, "I heard that there is a sequence, and a threesome has my teacher. Everyone can be a mentor in other people's lives."

Zhou Buqi said sincerely: "When Japanese Go was at its peak, it was the best period for Japan's economy. The Japanese economy is so flat now. The authorities have been printing massive amounts of money to stimulate inflation and stimulate economic vitality. It has been stimulating economic vitality for ten years. , but there is no inflation, and the economy is like stagnant water. It just so happens that Japanese Go has also fallen into a stagnation period at this stage, and it has been surpassed by China and South Korea.”

In many cases, through some imaginary spiritual things, it is indeed possible to obtain better results in practical applications.

Zhou Buqi nodded, "Metaphysics."

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "I figured it out on my own. This is because I met you. I will share my personal insights with you. I won't tell others. Small companies are easy to talk about, and small boats are easy to turn around. Like Ziweixing, For a behemoth like Ali, any conceptual mistake may suffer huge economic losses, so let’s not be fooled by Kazuo Inamori’s tricks.”

However, Japanese culture is so weird.

His case of saving Japan Airlines is really amazing and can be called a business miracle.

Moreover, he only spent a year.

"This is the problem of the way of thinking. It is a non-mainstream Japanese way of thinking. The development of Go in China and South Korea has become more and more high-tech and modernized. Japan is still guarding the tradition of 100 years ago. Even in the game field There is not even an anti-cheat system. But the more important thing is the concept, and now is the era of disenchantment."

Any other swordplay, sake, kimono, cherry blossoms, sumo wrestling, singing and dancing, etc., will rise to the height of "Tao", and even a foot massage will be called "Foot Road".

Go in the past was sanctified.

Zhou Buqi said: "I'm not interested in the methods of Japanese companies."

"It's gone, it's definitely gone."

This is also normal.

It is actually very simple to save a small boat that is about to leak, just drag it to the shore.But is it possible to save an aircraft carrier that is 99% sunk to the bottom of the sea?
Kazuo Inamori did it.

Boss Ma also has a lot of connections in the Japanese business world, no worse than Zhou Buqi, but he really hasn't thought about it from this angle, "Hearing what you said, it really feels like this."

Last year, he chose to come back to take charge of JAL.This year, JAL has turned losses into profits, and even in the first half of this year, JAL gave the best half-year financial report ever.

This is no longer simply leading JAL to turn losses into profits. Next, he will lead JAL to go public next year!

It took only two years for an aviation giant to go from bankruptcy to listing. It is definitely a legendary existence and an unrepeatable business miracle.

It is not surprising that he is highly respected by entrepreneurs all over the world, including Boss Ma.

So the question is, how did Kazuo Inamori do it?