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Zhou Buqi didn't believe that Lao Ma would ask him to go and listen to some master's lectures. He must have wanted to use this as an introduction to stir up something.

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

On the way, he called Boss Ma.

"You're looking for me?"

"Yes, when will you return to China? There is something going on here..."

"I'm in the capital!"

"Really? That's such a coincidence!" Boss Ma laughed twice, "I happen to have something to ask you here. It's such a big deal that JAL is coming back from the dead, do you know?"

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

Boss Ma was not surprised at all, "No wonder, then you have to go."

Zhou Buqi said angrily: "What's going on?"

Boss Ma said: "Our Entrepreneur Club invites him to come to China for a friendly visit to teach some principles of entrepreneurship and business. He will give a lecture at Shenghe School."

"If you have it, just do it. What are you doing?"

Zhou Buqi's reaction was relatively cold.

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

Zhou Buqi said: "I'm not interested in what Japanese companies do."

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

"Piao Shapiao, when it comes to learning, I might as well learn from you. Japanese business philosophy is non-mainstream in the world... By the way, can you play Go?"

"You know a little bit, what's wrong?" Boss Ma was a little confused, not knowing what nonsense this kid was going to talk about again.

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

Boss Ma is more familiar with this. This was the most exciting event in his youth. "In the 1980s, it was big news. Japan was so powerful at Go at that time that anyone sent here could defeat Chinese and Korean players." All the chess players were defeated. Later, Nie Qi Sheng came out, and we were barely qualified to compete with them."

Zhou Buqi then asked: "What now?"

"I'm not sure. Are you still in the mood to pay attention to Go?"

"Recently Ziweixing is going to develop a product about Go, so I learned a little about it. If you don't understand, I'll tell you. Don't think about being a teacher every day to educate me."

"Haha." Boss Ma laughed a few times, "There is a sequence of learning, and if we are together, we have a teacher. Everyone can become a mentor in others' lives."

Zhou Buqi was not in the mood to talk nonsense with him, "In the current Go circle, South Korea is the most powerful, and our country is also very strong. China and South Korea are basically equal in strength, but Japan is no longer good at Go. Any player from China and South Korea can win alone." Pick on the entire Japanese Go community.”

"Oh, so what?"

"This is a problem with the way of thinking. It is non-mainstream of Japanese thinking. The development of Go in China and South Korea has become more and more high-tech and modern. Japan is still adhering to the tradition of a hundred years ago. In the competition field There isn’t even an anti-cheating system. But the more important thing is a conceptual issue. Now is the era of disenchantment.”

"Disenchantment, I know, I heard it said."

Even though Boss Ma is a university teacher, he is usually too busy with work matters. The key is that he still can’t sit idle and likes to often participate in non-work matters, which makes him even busier. Don't read books.

Zhou Buqi said: "The Japanese Go community is still the same as it was a hundred years ago. They regard Go as a grand view of the universe and have a certain belief system. They play chess in a metaphysical belief system. In fact, this also exists in China and South Korea. I have a certain belief in Go, but it has been gradually disenchanted. It is now combined with high technology and results-oriented. Playing chess is mainly about winning, rather than seeking the mysterious truth."

The past game of Go was sanctified.

In China and South Korea, it’s actually okay. Go is a sport. Japan is very strange. It is greatly influenced by Japanese traditional culture and seeks the truth in all kinds of things.

Drinking tea is called "tea ceremony"; arranging flowers is called "flower arrangement"; writing with calligraphy is called "calligraphy".

There are also swordsmanship, sake, kimono, cherry blossoms, sumo wrestling, singing and dancing, etc., all of which have to be elevated to the level of "Tao". Even a foot massage will be called "Foot Do".

Many times, through some imaginary spiritual things, better results can be obtained in practical applications.

Because there were many blind spots in human cognition in the past, many things could not be understood, and they all needed this kind of virtual and real things to assist understanding, commonly known as metaphysics.

But now it’s 2011, and technology has developed to a high degree.

All walks of life are becoming highly specialized, and the applicable space of metaphysics will become smaller and smaller. Only in areas that humans cannot temporarily understand and science cannot temporarily explain, metaphysics will have room for survival. Once there is a breakthrough in scientific development, the pretense of metaphysics will be shattered.

As we enter modernization, more and more metaphysics are gradually being eliminated by the times.

So does Go.

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

However, Japanese culture is so weird.

They still adhere to traditional metaphysical views.

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

Boss Ma also has many connections in the Japanese business world, and he is no worse than Zhou Buqi. However, he has never thought about it from this perspective, "When you say this, it feels like this is really the case."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "I just figured it all out myself. Now that I have met you, I will share my personal insights with you. I won't tell anyone else. Small companies are easy to talk to, and small ships are easy to turn around. Like Ziweixing, For a behemoth like Alibaba, any conceptual mistake may cause huge economic losses. Let’s not be fooled by Kazuo Inamori’s words.”

Boss Ma believed that he was telling the truth, "Yes, Teacher Zhou, please continue to teach."

Zhou Buqi said sincerely: "When Japanese Go was at its peak, the Japanese economy was at its best. The Japanese economy is so mediocre now. The authorities printed massive amounts of money to cause inflation and stimulate economic vitality. They have been doing this for ten years. , but there is no inflation, and the economy is like stagnant water. Coincidentally, Japanese Go also fell into a period of stagnation at this stage, and was surpassed by China and South Korea."

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

For example, Lao Zhang from Sohu.

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

It was even influenced by Japanese business culture, with a bit of metaphysics, a style of "I am a god and you are all ants".

It stands to reason that Zhou Buqi is foresighted, and he is more qualified to ridicule business people all over the world as ants.

But he doesn't like this.

So what if I had foresight?

Wasn't he tricked by Lei Jun into drinking half a catty of liquor? The number of times I have been fooled by Boss Ma is even greater, but you must not underestimate the world's heroes.

Boss Ma is indeed very interested in this set. "The compatibility between Japanese Go and Japanese economy must be due to some intersection in a higher thinking perspective."

It feels comfortable to communicate with powerful people. Zhou Buqi smiled and said: "Yes, that's what I mean. Japanese Go is too metaphysical, and the same goes for Japanese business, which is also full of many metaphysical theories. The most typical one is Inamori Kazuo. "

"Well……"

Boss Ma was very embarrassed.

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

Later, Boss Ma fell from the altar, which was largely related to this. You pursue the ultimate "business way", and the higher you go, the greater the conflict with other "ways" will be. When the avenues fight, it means life and death.

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

The same goes for Boss Tsui.

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

But most of it is social.

There are really not many true entrepreneur friends, and you can count them on one hand.

Boss Ma is one of them.

Not only can the two communicate on an equal footing, they can ridicule, tease and even directly engage in national insults, but they can also have some deep spiritual communication.

Zhou Buqi wanted to give him a heads up and said: "I met Inamori Kazuo two or three times. One time I was deeply impressed. Several old guys from the Japanese business world and I went to visit him. You know he lives in Where?"

"In the temple."

"Well, he has been practicing Zen in the temple since he retired. When I asked him about business management concepts, his explanations were as mysterious as a Buddhist class."

Boss Ma disagreed, "But you can't deny that his business management theory has obvious effects. Do you know how he saved JAL?"

Zhou Buqi nodded, "It's about metaphysics."

Kazuo Inamori’s rescue of JAL is the most spectacular and shocking business case among global companies in the past year.

In fact, in the past few years of the economic crisis, there have been many cases of "experts stepping in to save companies."

For example, domestic Lenovo fell into huge losses and CEO Liu came back. For example, Focus was ignored by the market and CEO Jiang returned to take charge of the overall situation. There are also many foreign ones, such as Mr. Dell who came back to save the troubled Dell company, the great Schultz came back to take charge of Starbucks, Yang Zhiyuan came back to take charge of Yahoo, including Google's Larry Page, who actually wanted to lead Google out of social media Dilemma.

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

This is also normal.

His case of saving JAL is so amazing that it can be called a business miracle.

Japan Airlines was a giant company that fell into bankruptcy.

It is difficult to turn around the ship.

If you want to save a leaking boat, it's actually very simple, 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.

And, it only took him a year.

Last year, he chose to come back and take charge of JAL. This year, JAL has turned a profit, and even in the first half of this year, JAL gave its best half-year financial report in history.

This is no longer simply about leading JAL to turn a profit. Next, he will lead JAL to go public next year!

An aviation giant went from bankruptcy to listing in just two years. It is absolutely legendary and a business miracle that cannot be copied.

It is not surprising that it is highly praised by entrepreneurs around the world, including Boss Ma.

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