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Inamori Kazuo passed away at home on August 24 at the age of 90. He died of old age.
It should be said that many people in business have learned from him. It is said that there are three types of books in the airport bookstore, Wang Yangming 's Xin Xue , game theory, and Inamori Kazuo.
Those business lecturers you see repeatedly playing on the airport screen are mostly talking about their experience in learning from Kazuo Inamori.
Some people don’t understand this business god who lives across an ocean. Let me give you a few examples.
Kazuo Inamori is the only entrepreneur in the world so far who has established a Fortune 500 company twice in a row.
The first company he founded was called Kyocera , in the materials industry. After leading the company to become a Fortune 500 company, he gave all his shares to his employees, and then started his second business in a different field, in the telecommunications field. He founded KDDI and became a Fortune 500 company again.
Based on this alone, it is the only example in the world.
Then, he retired and devoted himself to studying Buddhism and spent his remaining years in peace.
At this time, the world's third largest airline, Japan Airlines , had debts of more than 120 billion RMB and declared bankruptcy. Japan's wings are broken.
The then Prime Minister came to plead with this business legend to come out and save JAL. Kazuo Inamori agreed without saying a word, not worrying at all about the loss of the evening due to a mistake.
Kazuo Inamori, who took office, did not bring any of his former subordinates with him. He went almost alone and received zero salary.
only added Kazuo Inamori to JAL. It turned a profit within one year, made a substantial profit within two years, and relisted after three years.
From then on, Inamori Kazuo took another step forward on the altar and completely became a legend that only exists in books.
Let’s talk about two more things to compliment him. It is said that Jack Ma asked Kazuo Inamori three times for advice, and Ren Zhengfei regarded him as his idol.
If a person is pulled up to this height, how can he still talk? I can only talk about my learning experience.
Today I will follow the example of those airport lecturers and talk about my experience in learning Kazuo Inamori.
The process of Kazuo Inamori's first founding of Kyocera and the management methods were very similar to Ren Zhengfei's founding of Huawei .
Of course, this description is inaccurate, because Kazuo Inamori is the senior and he is in front of the timeline. But most of us know more about Huawei's establishment process and management model, so I have to reverse this analogy.
The backgrounds of Kazuo Inamori and Ren Zhengfei are very similar. It can be said that they were not very smooth in the early days and experienced many hardships.
For example, Kazuo Inamori is not an academic master. He failed the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination. He also passed the tuberculosis , and Yu Minhong also passed the .
After graduation, the economy was in recession. As a poor student, he could only join a company with no future at all.
But he is very diligent. He synthesized a certain material himself, which was the first time in Japanese history and became a technical master.
In fact, as an ordinary person, if you follow Kazuo Inamori's example, you can close the book when you see this, because we can't reach the rest.
I have experience with this.
I read the biography of Napoleon when I was a child, and found myself attracted by his more than forty war victories, his passion for unifying Europe, and the story of his love affair with Josephine.
Later, I found that these had nothing to do with me. They are in heaven, but we are on earth, and even envy cannot reach them. The only thing that really inspired me was the story of Napoleon as a child.
For example, when he fought with others when he was a child, he would not admit defeat no matter how hard he fought. He would get up when he fell, and he would get up after he fell. He had great tenacity.Another example is that he has been eating black bread since he was a child, because he knows that the soldiers can only eat this. He needs to understand the physical strength of the soldiers in order to make accurate judgments and assign appropriate tasks.
I learned these two points, because he became the commander in his 20s, and I can't catch up even in my 40s. I can't use his other advantages even if I learn them.
But today is about storytelling, we continue the legend of Kazuo Inamori.
After becoming a technology giant, Kazuo Inamori started his own business at the age of 29. His management model is very similar to Huawei's, both of which try to mobilize the enthusiasm of employees.
How can we mobilize the enthusiasm of employees? Quite simply, if employees feel like they are the boss, they will be in high spirits.
It’s useless if you just fool your employees, teach them about Huawei, and learn from the wolf culture. Many of our business owners cannot learn any ideas from Huawei. What you call is wolf culture, but what you call Erha culture.
Why? Because wolves travel thousands of miles to eat meat, and dogs travel thousands of miles to eat shit. If you feed your men meat, they will be wolves. If you don’t feed your men meat, they will at best be just wolves, pretending to be wolves and deceiving you.
Giving employees meat does not mean just giving money. Giving money for no reason will only feed a group of lazy people.
The management strategy invented by Kazuo Inamori is called amoeba . He established thousands of amoeba within the company, and each amoeba is settled independently. It’s like an internally incubated start-up company.
Independent settlement means that you are responsible for your profits and losses. You make money to eat meat, but you don’t make money to drink soup. So these amoeba are very fighting, always like a start-up company.
They feel that they are the boss, a small entrepreneurial company that operates independently under the Kyocera brand.
This method is also very common in Huawei. Huawei often opens three lines at the same time to develop the same product, and whoever gets there first takes all.
But there is a problem with this method, that is, how to eliminate internal friction and how to form synergy among small internal teams? Rather than one's own people beating one's own people.
To be precise, I don’t know how to do it, but I know that Kazuo Inamori obviously did it.
The second company I worked for before, I also learned their strategies. Most domestic companies have learned Kazuo Inamori's amoeba strategy and have further improved it. There is a special term in China called a three-person team. A group like
is indeed very effective, but sometimes it is easy to be disturbed by the market. For example, a certain group is lucky to have only 3 people and has created a net profit of 300 million yuan. The net profit of the entire company in the previous ten years may have been less than 100 million.
So how do you allocate the bonus now? This becomes a problem.
Ultimately, you want to reward positivity, not luck. Otherwise it is unsustainable. After all, you can't rely on this three-person team to make a living from now on, and they won't be able to create the same miracle next year.
So I say amoeba is just an idea. How to implement this idea will be a great test for the management.
Anyway, the second company I worked for in the past could not do it. In the end, it returned to the matrix management model, which is a cross-management model between department managers and project managers.
This model has many problems, such as multiple leaders and departmental walls. The problem is, you can't just consider whether a method is good or not, you also have to consider whether you can use it smoothly.
The Qinglong Yanyue Knife is very good and weighs 81 kilograms. If you can’t lift it, how can you kill people with it?
This is the distance between theory and reality.We have learned this method of amoeba a long time ago. In reality, it is rare to see a company using it to the level of Kazuo Inamori.
After Kazuo Inamori founded the Fortune 500 for the first time, it should be said that he has reached a level that is incomprehensible to me at least at my current level.
He later attributed his success many times to the four words "respecting heaven and loving people".
He is very similar to Ren Zhengfei in that he distributes equity to employees as much as possible, and he has the temperament of a spiritual leader. It seems that he will not lose control of the company even without equity. To be honest,
is more difficult to learn.
Like Mr. Ren, if you only hold a little more than 1 share, you can still make everyone in Huawei listen to him. Not every business owner can do this.
To be honest, most bosses have to hold more than 51%, otherwise you will immediately turn against them. You don't have that charisma.
Anyone who can hold only 30% or 20% of the shares and maintain the team is considered a master.
In the final analysis, the relationship between people is to use each other and need each other. Under normal circumstances, employees and bosses are interdependent on capital and talent.
Inamori Kazuo may have entered a new level. He has become the symbol of the company and the company's brand. Inamori Kazuo is like KFC grandpa. KFC will not abandon KFC grandpa, nor will his company. he.
He established a new dependency with the company.
But I personally feel that this legendary success is related to the times.
In order for everyone to understand this, let me use an analogy.
Have you noticed that after Zhuge Liang , there will be no Zhuge Liang.
Starting from Jiang Ziya, to Guan Zhong, Le Yi, Zhang Liang, we have always had this kind of situation in history where one person's strength leads to generals and ministers. He is both a king and a master. The national advisor, the legendary strategist who turned the tide.
So when will it end? It's over with Zhuge Liang.
Of course, there will be top counselors such as Liu Bowen , Yao Guangxiao , but their influence and achievements are compared to the counselors from Jiang Ziya to Zhuge Liang. It is simply the light of a firefly compared to the brightness of the bright moon.
Why? Because times have changed.
The era before Zhuge Liang was aristocratic. Only a few people had studied and participated in the game. His opponents were the children of several wealthy families.
Therefore, one or two top counselors often appear and lead the entire era as soon as they appear. Because to be honest, maybe only one in a thousand people in that era had ever studied.
In the era after Zhuge Liang, poor families also had opportunities. Of course this does not mean that farmers have a chance, but maybe 5% of them have gone to school. After the supply of talents suddenly increased dozens of times, professional division of labor began.
As a result, the possibility of a great talent emerging that can impress everyone in any field has been greatly reduced.
Fan Zhongyan Politics is good, but fighting is just like that. Su Dongpo's lyrics are good, but in other aspects, they are just like that.
You are unlikely to be like Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu At that time, Zhou Yu was not only great at fighting, but he was also as eloquent as he played the piano. If the song is wrong, Zhou Lang will take care of it.
Zhuge Liang was also very impressive. He had never written anything in his life, so he casually wrote an official document of more than 700 words. As a result, dozens of idioms appeared in it. It's like writing a weekly newspaper, sending a random email, and later winning the Hugo Award for .
This is incomprehensible to future generations. I can only think that the professional division of labor at that time was too low and there were so few competitors that it seemed that the talents of the entire era were concentrated in a few people.
The same applies to Kazuo Inamori. I think he is in a special era. At that time, fully mobilizing the enthusiasm of employees was a very effective business tool. This was the background of his success.
Today’s business environment is dominated by capital. If you really copied his homework exactly, you wouldn't even be able to pass the novice village.
Because capital has a thousand ways to play with you. You say you are amoeba, you say you mobilize the enthusiasm of employees, you say you give employees shares.
Capital will ignore you. When capital comes up, it will be free. It will first spend 10 billion, and then 10 billion, so that customers can develop the habit of plucking wool. When the market is developed, even if the market is not developed, profits will be directly transferred to the next owner through the capital market.
The wool comes from the cow, let the pig pay the bill. This is the way to play after capital intervenes.
So I say, for most people, it is enough for you to learn about his inspirational youth. In the later part, you want to copy his homework, but the homework has changed.
More importantly, there are many things he can do that may not mean you can too.
As I said before, those who learn Huawei’s wolf culture are basically stupid, because Huawei really gives money, and you may not want to really give it, or you may not be able to give it. Anyway, employees will not eat it. Meat alone cannot have wolf nature.
In the same way, those who learn from Kazuo Inamori basically end up learning PUA, so much so that Kazuo Inamori has a nickname in China, called the originator of PUA.
actually doesn’t have a PUA himself. He did ask his employees to sign up for it, but he gave the money and he didn’t get much more.
In other words, you have to say PUA, he PUA everyone, including himself.
But this is something that his bosses cannot do just like him. They only want to P others, not themselves. I want my brothers to work overtime and marry them new sisters-in-law at the end of the year. So after you learn it, of course it will be useless, and employees will not believe it.
Moreover, times have changed and business practices have changed. If you follow the old routine, you may have to get a box lunch in the first episode, even if you are serious about it.
The Bible is definitely a good book, but there are times when the Bible is applicable. The curtain call of Kazuo Inamori reminds us once again of the business era. The
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