Reverse Rebirth 1990

Chapter 508 520 [Akio Morita's Ambition]

Tokyo, Japan, Mount Fuji——
Mount Fuji is known as the sacred mountain in Japan, and is also called "Furong Peak", or "Fuyue" and "the only high mountain".Since ancient times, the name of this mountain has often appeared in the traditional Japanese poetry "Waka".

The name Fuji is derived from the Ainu language and now means "eternal life".The original pronunciation comes from the language of the Ainu ethnic group in Japan, meaning "mountain of fire" or "God of fire".The beautiful conical shape of the mountain is world-renowned as a sacred symbol of Japan.

At this time, in the depths of the dense forest, three Akita dogs were sprinting, and the poor hare was running away in a panic.

Turning left and right, the gray hare finally saw a small hole in the ground, was overjoyed, and hurriedly burrowed into it.

Just then, there was a bang.

The whole body of the hare flew up from the bullet belt, rolled and fell to the ground.

Three Akita dogs were barking wildly, circling around the bloody hare, one of them opened its mouth, picked it up, and ran towards the back, while the other two, like bodyguards, guarded left and right, and flew towards the owner to claim credit.

White smoke was emitting from the muzzle of the black hole, and the nose-choking smell of gunpowder made the noses of the four followers next to it itchy, but they did not dare to rub their noses, nor did they dare to make a sound.He just stood quietly, looking at Akio Morita who was holding a gun and hitting the target.

Akio Morita put down the muzzle of the gun, squinted his eyes and looked into the distance, and asked, "Did you hit it?"

The person next to him hurriedly said: "It has been hit! Mr. President is really good at marksmanship!"

Others are also busy flattering, what kind of marksmanship is like a god.

Akio Morita smiled, threw the shotgun to the person next to him, took the wet towel and wiped his hands, and said, "It's not that my marksmanship is good, it's that this rabbit was unlucky and hit the muzzle of my gun."

After a pause, he continued: "I'm old, I know how my marksmanship is, and I have self-knowledge——Presbyopia's eyes can't even see the top of Mount Fuji clearly, so how can he see such a small rabbit clearly?"

The people next to him were embarrassed and did not dare to make a sound.

Akio Morita glanced at them, and there was a hint of brilliance in his cloudy eyes, "Although I am old, I am not so easy to fool. If you think that you can stay by my side safely just by being nice to me, Then your idea is wrong. The people around me can only be two kinds of people, one can help me expand my territory, and the other can help me protect my foundation - there have been many people who flatter me since ancient times , never missing, so I am not rare!"

At this time, the three Akita dogs had their prey in their mouths—the unlucky rabbit came back, put the hare in front of Akio Morita obediently, and then circled around him.

Akio Morita signaled the people around him to give them a reward, so those Akita dogs happily enjoyed their rewards, and didn't care what these humans were saying.

"See? They know how to be satisfied. If you have meritorious service, you will be rewarded. This is my principle --- what about you, do you want to be a hunting dog rewarded by me, or a rabbit that depends on luck?" Akio Morita He glanced contemptuously at the people around him.

The people around were silent like cicadas.

In fact, the people around him dare not speak, because Sony's business in the United States is too bad, which makes the old man have a strange temper recently.

At the beginning, when Tadao Kimura went to the United States, he boasted boldly, saying that he would stabilize and expand the business of the American company, and then let Sony go to a higher level. Who knew that steel plates were mentioned this time.

It is said that the young man named Song Zhichao turned out to be a once-in-a-century business genius. He teamed up with pop king Michael Jackson to promote his Vanke VCD, making the brand "Vanke" known to the whole world.

Next, Kimura was under great pressure in the United States, and began to implement Sony's price reduction and promotion strategy. He thought that this time he would be able to step on the newly emerging Vanke, but Song Zhichao came up with a "sword slant", you If the price is lowered, I will increase the price, engage in limited sales, and sell tens of thousands of units in limited quantities throughout the United States.It is conceivable that for those Americans who love vanity, buying a VCD is a sense of vanity.

After successfully taking the slant, Song Zhichao took the third step, winning by surprise, and even concocted a farce of "sell your kidney to buy Vanke", which made Vanke's VCD break through the shackles of limited quantities, and sales skyrocketed again.

After studying Song Zhichao's series of methods, Akio Morita knew that the Tadao Kimura he sent might not be the opponent of this young man--a person who can do business every step of the way and make business calculations to the extreme, just ask, who is still the opponent ?

This is the same as playing Go-Akio Morita likes to play Go very much, and he is also a six-dan master.You take one step and watch three steps, but others take one step and watch ten steps. How can you fight with others?

However, what troubled Akio Morita the most was not Kimura’s consecutive defeats against Song Zhichao in the United States. After all, VCD is a new product, and there is still a long way to go before it can completely replace Sony’s video electronic products—during this period, He, Akio Morita, can completely re-arrange the chessboard and compete with that young man named Song Zhichao.

What kept Akio Morita awake at night was actually Columbia Pictures, which was acquired by Sony.

Akio Morita is a very bad-tempered person, but he is also a person who dares to admit mistakes --- at several shareholder meetings, Akio Morita openly admitted that his acquisition of Columbia was a huge "mistake".

In Akio Morita's own words: "The huge national vanity blinded my eyes, so that I only saw the pride of acquiring Columbia, but did not see the series of losses and deficits behind!"

Especially now, almost all the profits that Sony makes around the world every year are used to fill the big hole of losses in Colombia, so that Sony, which was originally profitable, can only maintain "flat" performance every year.

This is simply a kind of irony!
As the well-known king of Sony and a Japanese boss who competed with the god of management of Matsushita, Akio Morita was ridiculed by his colleagues in the industry because of this wrong acquisition case. They joked that he was an American nanny and an out-and-out fool.

hateful!

Abominable!

But this is the truth.

From [-] to [-], the company suffered serious losses for three consecutive years, which made Akio Morita somewhat unsteady, and many shareholders still called for dumping the pot and selling Columbia.

But if you want to get rid of the pot, you must have a receiver, but who will be the receiver?

People who do business are not fools, not to mention the huge size of Colombia, which cannot be swallowed by ordinary companies--the acquisition amount of billions of dollars, even Sony was hesitant at the beginning.

Looking at all the large companies in the world, for a while, Akio Morita felt a sense of powerlessness, and getting rid of Columbia, a burden company, became his biggest "heart problem".

Just then, someone called him.

Tell him that his name is Song Zhichao, and he wants to buy his Sony-owned package company—Columbia!

(End of this chapter)