Top of the Great Era

No one is a saint, everyone has flaws, and some cognitive biases.

Even Kazuo Inamori, whose mental state is as high as a sage, can still make mistakes. It is obvious that he is a bit self-defeating.

He has a very high level of state, can be selfless, dedicated, loving, respectful, and have a heart-based outlook on life, and then use this set of thoughts to educate others... Damn!How many people in the world can really do it?
Zhou Buqi visited Kazuo Inamori several times in Japan, when he was still a monk in the temple, he was full of respect for this man.This time he went out to save Nikko, and he didn't get a penny of compensation... However, compared with his legendary life, it was nothing at all.

Inamori Kazuo is a great entrepreneur, he has started two businesses.

For the first time, I founded Kyocera, which became a giant in the world's top 500; when I was middle-aged, I founded KDDI... That's right, it is the second largest communication giant that Astar has cooperated with in Japan. Fortune 500 companies.

One person founded, operated, and managed two giant companies in the world's top 500, which is the only one in the world.

He is rich.

When he found out he had cancer 13 years ago, he chose a new life.He truly fulfilled the principles of selflessness, dedication, love for others, and respect for heaven. He almost dissipated all his family wealth, and then distributed all the company shares to the employees of the two companies, and then went to the temple to practice.

Such a rich man who once dominated the wealth list had to rely on alms for food.If you can't melt it, you will be hungry.

Just such a resume is enough to make people respect.

Meng Houkun laughed, he didn't dare, and waved his hands immediately, "Modern enterprise management is to find a way to conform to human nature, and stimulate their work mentality through the selfish attributes in everyone's genes. Employees earn more, The company will earn more. Instead of letting employees selflessly dedicate their share of benefits to the company, so that the company can earn more."

Zhou Buqi was at a loss.

From his words and tone, Zhou Buqi seemed to feel a bit of disapproval of Lenovo's model, and said: "Without Lenovo, Great Wall can't survive. The PC market is an open industry. The concept of Great Wall, In fact, it is very similar to Kazuo Inamori. You must have selfless character, dedication, and require employees with the standards of saints. Look at the Japanese PC industry, which was once world-class. Now there are no computer companies. ? Either went bankrupt or was acquired."

This is his way of thinking, and it is also his biggest rebuttal to Kazuo Inamori's ideas.

"Yes, Lenovo opened its eyes to see that the world is at the forefront of reform and opening up, and then it has influenced several generations of entrepreneurs including you. If you follow the topic of Kazuo Inamori just now, this is actually Mr. The modern concept of pursuing personal interests is doing business, and then emboldens the entire private enterprise industry first, so you people all admire him."

Meng Houkun was indeed not an ordinary person.

"The Japanese economy can't get up now, because Japanese companies can't get up. Why can't Japanese companies get up? The root lies in this level. Japanese companies have employees with the worst work efficiency and work motivation in the world. It is worse than our state-owned enterprises. The root cause is the serious derailment of Japanese companies and modern corporate concepts, the most typical of which is the lifetime employment system and class system."

Zhou Buqi said: "I don't believe in Kazuo Inamori, but I still believe more in Boss Liu."

"you're right."

"Old Liu is not doing well." Meng Houkun pointed upwards and yawned, "From top to bottom, he is not optimistic. Kazuo Inamori's influence is not only in the business field, his achievements can strengthen cultural confidence."

"Well, making money for shareholders and paying taxes for the society, in the final analysis, it still has to fall on the interests."

"Ah."

In fact, they have made more mistakes and made more jokes.

His foresight did not cover the Japanese commercial market, and his understanding of Japanese companies was limited to world giants such as Sony, Panasonic, and Honda.

Zhou Buqi said: "Kazuo Inamori is so old, almost 80 years old. His peak period was the confrontation between the United States and Japan in the 80s, and Japan did not fall behind at all. He can look down on the modern corporate concept It has been several decades, and the Japanese corporate philosophy has long since ceased to work. The pursuit of personal interests is the driving force within the corporate body. The idea of ​​'changing the world' that Silicon Valley advocates is actually individualism. From material interests to the pursuit of spiritual interests, they are all essentially the same, they are all inward self-satisfaction, self-interest first, and then others. Kazuo Inamori suddenly brought out the old antiques, and then it affected a large number of people. "

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Boss Liu is now on stage, market economy."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help but praise him again, "I think I can make an exception for you to recruit a young girl as a secretary. I think you have the ability to control it."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help applauding him.

Even Bill Gates, Jobs, Masayoshi Son, Boss Ma, Larry Page, Lei Jun, and Musk often say some stupid things that are completely inconsistent with the future world.

Meng Houkun gave a thumbs up and said with a smile: "Boss Zhou is Boss Zhou, that sums it up really well!"

"what?"

Meng Houkun curled his lips and said, "I thought you had already taken this question very deeply. Do you know how Lenovo got started back then?"

So in this life, when he has come into contact with many great figures, many legendary entrepreneurs, and many world elites, it will be very interesting.

Meng Houkun went on to say: "Great Wall is a state-owned enterprise...in fact, so is Lenovo, but after Mr. Liu took charge of Lenovo, it basically depends on what he says. But Great Wall is different. It has to respond to the call of the country, to contribute to the progress of the industry and the country's technology. To contribute to development, we must use domestic spare parts and develop self-developed technologies. Lenovo here is a modern corporate philosophy, and an atmosphere of fighting for its own interests has quickly formed from top to bottom in the company. Fighting for welfare, the enthusiasm is mobilized at once. Then there is marketization at the strategic level, purchasing the best product spare parts at the business level, assembling world-class PCs, and relying on products to speak. The model of the Great Wall is inefficient and expensive. , Employees are not motivated to work, and the product configuration is too low and several generations behind competing products, and it will be eliminated by the market.”

When he went to Sony to investigate, he saw such a scene with his own eyes.

Meng Houkun said: "It's too simplistic for you to say that."

"In the early days, it was speculative, reselling TVs, refrigerators and so on. In the mid-term, Lenovo Hanka was developed, and then it became a well-known technology company. Later, it produced computers and became an industry giant."

"What?" Meng Houkun was amused, "Boss Liu? What's wrong with Lenovo?"

History is a little girl who can be dressed up by others, and so are the big men who are high above.The successful resumes of the best world elites have been whitewashed, and the right things they said and the right things they did were extracted and spread to the world.

Zhou Buqi nodded.

Meng Houkun said: "Computers at that time were very expensive, and the competition in the market was unprecedentedly fierce. There were more than a dozen foreign brands, and there were also giants like Great Wall in China. Great Wall computers, you know? It was fierce back then, and it was made in China. The mainstay, all major agencies and institutions are purchasing Great Wall computers. Do you know how Great Wall, a state-owned giant with the most resources and policy support, was defeated by Lenovo?"

Meng Houkun nodded, "Well, even Sony is dying."

Unexpectedly, Meng Houkun had seen this clearly long ago, and felt that he was stronger than Boss Ma... Well, Boss Ma is not a good person to comment on, maybe he is fooling people and pretending to be stupid on purpose.

This had a great vigilance effect on Zhou Buqi.

However, foresight has a very important derivative effect, which is "disenchantment".

"Then make it more complicated."

Zhou Buqi couldn't help laughing, "I thought I was going to give you a lecture, talking about some misunderstandings you may have about Kazuo Inamori, but I didn't expect you to be teaching me."

When these people say something deafening and uplifting, which makes people cry and blood boil, he often feels like watching a joke.

Zhou Buqi had a close contact and felt deeply.

"Hanka."

Zhou Buqi said: "Lenovo is failing because of the changing times and the decline of the PC industry. If you look at Dell and HP in the United States, don't they think of various ways to survive?"

"Great Wall was a state-owned enterprise at that time, and it had to bear great social responsibilities and the obligation of national scientific and technological development, but Lenovo has fully opened up the modern concept of running a company..."

This makes him have a far more profound disenchantment vigilance than others in practice.Kazuo Inamori is admirable, and even Boss Ma is immersed in it.However, he was able to look at this school of thought that will have a huge impact on the entire domestic business community with a calmer attitude and a broader perspective.

However, Zhou Buqi has an advantage, that is, foresight.

Zhou Buqi knows what the world will look like ten years from now.

Zhou Buqi said: "Yes, self-interest. The modern enterprise concept is self-interest, and everything is based on personal interests. Hard work is not to contribute to the company, but to promote and make money. Employees work for their own interests. Work, not for any other bigger vision. This is exactly the opposite of Kazuo Inamori’s philosophy. The idea of ​​modernization is selfish and self-interested, while Kazuo Inamori advocates selflessness and dedication.”

Zhou Buqi saw it with his own eyes.

A director called several middle-level leaders under him and lined up in a row.Then the director went over, "Papa" started to slap the face, lined up, no one was left behind.

After being slapped, the person who was beaten would nod and bow his head and say "hi" to show his obedience.

In fact, this is the remaining traditional dross.

Meng Houkun said: "Yes."

Zhou Buqi said: "So as long as Kazuo Inamori's ideas are not in line with the concept of modernization, there is no meaning of promotion. Saving JAL is just an example. It comes from his personal charm that can be called a saint, not his business philosophy."

"Boss Zhou, you are so right, but..." Meng Houkun took a deep look at him, "If you don't promote it, you won't promote it, you have the final say?"