Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 153 Find a CEO
"How's it going over there?"

"As expected by the president, Iwaya-san agreed."

"Well, that's good. See you in Tokyo."

"Hi, see you in Tokyo."

After hanging up the phone, Masato Takeshita and Hideo Kojima boarded the Shinkansen to Tokyo.

Masato Takeshita chose a first-class seat.

Kojima looked around curiously, then asked casually, "President, why don't you take a plane? Isn't that faster?"

“I’m worried about accidents.”

Japan's Shinkansen operates very stably and there have been no accidents for many years.

The same cannot be said for airplanes. Although the probability of an accident is very low, if one occurs there is a high probability that all airplanes will be destroyed.

He was a little distrustful of civil aviation and planned to buy a private plane after a while and then hire the best aircraft maintenance personnel and pilots.

After returning to Star Ocean Games, the first general meeting was still chaired by Masato Takeshita himself.

He immediately announced the company's new appointments.

"The head of the First Development Department will be concurrently held by President Rogers. The members include Aoki Hideyuki, Sato Tsuyoshi..."

For this meeting, Masato Takeshita had three goals.

First, demonstrate your presence.

Masato Takeshita has indeed retreated to the second line behind the scenes, but he is not responsible for daily operations and management.

He still has to make the final decision on the company's major issues and direction.

Second, dismantle bulletproof software.

This time he set up a total of three development departments, each of which included one-third of the employees of Bulletproof Software.

This will prevent Bulletproof Software employees from forming cliques and affecting the unity within the company.

Third, fulfill the promises you made.

Masato Takeshita directly appointed Toru Iwatani as the director of the second development department and Hideo Kojima as the director of the third development department, giving the two a better creative space.

But these are just the surface.
Trace back to the source.

Masato Takeshita's ultimate goal is to enhance his prestige and power within the Star Ocean game.

I heard that the position of director of the third development department will be taken up by the young Hideo Kojima.

Most of the company's employees couldn't help but show envious expressions.

Masato Takeshita noticed this and said solemnly: "Our company values morality, but we value talent even more."

"Hideo Kojima is a genius who, if given the opportunity, can create a game that will rock the world."

"There may be a genius among you. As long as you show it in the company, the next director of the fourth development department may be one of you."

Xinghai Games is in dire need of high-level talents who can stand on their own two feet.

If someone within the company can stand out, he or she will be given a higher position.

This is the direct lineage!
"Do you have confidence?"

"Have!"

Everyone shouted in unison, and even the three ministers stretched their necks.

"Very good, dismissed!"

After the meeting, Masato Takeshita left the company with satisfaction. It is only by maintaining this spirit that Xinghai Games can grow and develop.

After the game company was over, Masato Takeshita started to busy himself with Xinghai Semiconductor.

On the way back to the company, he closed his eyes and asked Lin Qingqian: "What time is the appointment with Mr. Igarashi today?"

Igarashi Kaze, head of Korn Ferry’s Asia Pacific region.

Masato Takeshita took the initiative to approach the world's number one headhunting company, mainly to find a suitable CEO for Xinghai Semiconductor.

"Today at 3 o'clock in the afternoon."

"Ah."

After lunch and a short break, it was already 3pm. The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and Takeshita Masato simply asked, "I wonder if Mr. Igarashi has found a suitable candidate?"

Igarashi responded proudly: "Of course, we are Korn Ferry International."

Then he handed dozens of documents to Masato Takeshita.

Then, while the young people are watching, interrupt them to tell them some interesting stories about them.

"this is not bad."

When Masato Takeshita saw the name written on the resume, he couldn't help but nod in approval.

As expected of the world's number one headhunting company, they have a sharp eye.

Zhang Rujing is still just a middle-level manager at Texas Instruments, but Korn Ferry accurately judged that this man has talent no less than that of Zhang Zhongmou.

Who is Zhang Zhongmou? He is the former No. 3 boss of Texas Instruments.

Even though he now works for a small company in Taiwan, no one dares to look down on him.

However, after considering for a moment, Masato Takeshita finally gave up on this genius.

Zhang Rujing is very good at building wafer fabs, but Xinghai Semiconductor is not in a hurry to expand now and does not need large-scale construction.

It was only in the 90s that he would consider this great talent.

After reading more than ten resumes in a row, Masato Takeshita finally saw the familiar words again.

Lou Gerstner, former youngest partner and youngest director at McKinsey.

Later, he went to American Express as executive vice president and became one of the pioneers of the "American Express Credit Card".

Not long ago, he was preparing to run for CEO of United Airlines.

Due to various reasons, I failed and am currently idle at home.

"Is this one okay?"

"He's never worked in the semiconductor industry. Is that okay?"

Although Igarashi Feng really wanted to complete the order, the creed of Korn Ferry International still made him unable to help but give some advice.

Headhunting companies can never be profit-driven. Only by always thinking from the client's perspective can they win the client's trust.

"No problem, our company needs such a sales genius."

Just kidding, Lou Gerstner would become the president of IBM in the future.

Even a giant company like IBM, which was seriously ill and facing bankruptcy crisis, was able to regain its glory by Lou Gerstner, not to mention Xinghai Semiconductor, which had a simple and transparent structure.

Besides, Masato Takeshita didn't lie.

Whether it is the memory card and mobile hard disk projects under development, or the OEM business of its subsidiary Xinghai, they all lack the ability to develop the European and American markets.

Lou Gerstner has strong sales capabilities and should be able to help the company's wafer foundry projects gain a foothold in Europe and the United States.

There is fierce competition between American semiconductor companies and Japanese semiconductor companies.

But the first thing small and medium-sized companies have to face is the issue of survival.

Naturally, they will not choose their own country's wafer fabs for foundry just because of so-called patriotism.

Besides, big companies also have a lot of cooperation with Japanese semiconductor companies.

For example, IBM has many businesses in Japan.

Of course, the cooperation will not affect the American semiconductor giants, which hate Japanese semiconductor companies very much.

The one with the most hatred is Intel, whose originally very profitable storage business was directly driven out of the market by Japanese companies.

Made a mortal enemy.

IBM was no less successful, and even cooperated with the federal government in a sting operation.

IBM deliberately let its employees leak internal company information to a Japanese semiconductor company, and then arranged for FBI agents to arrest them.

This made several Japanese semiconductor giants so embarrassed that they could only apologize desperately.

The US-Japan Semiconductor Agreement, which was released not long ago, was based on this incident.

(End of this chapter)