Chapter 21 The Mentality of Japanese Entrepreneurs

In today's Japan, if you talk about "big", it must be bad, just like the "big newspaper" I mentioned before, and "big media" like TV.This time, I want to talk about big companies that have the word "big". I often wonder, how many of these entrepreneurs in Japan have experienced the economic crisis and feel a sense of crisis? During this period of time, people often heard the words "Japan is a country with great industry and technology", but 5 years ago, people were still saying "Japan can become a country with advanced technology".But in fact, for example, in the field of semiconductors, especially in the field of DRAM, Japanese companies never thought that they would lose to South Korea's Samsung.

In the 1980s when Japanese companies swept the world, many books on Japanese companies appeared in the American book market, and people bought them one after another.At that time, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard in the United States organized and launched an association called the "Competitiveness Committee", which was set up for the U.S. government and industry to study Japan. Today, the United States has its own high-tech enterprises. As for South Korea's Samsung, if it was underestimated because of negligence in the past, wouldn't it be a good thing to do a thorough research on Samsung now, or set up a research association?But Japanese entrepreneurs seem to have no intention of doing this.

Perhaps psychologically, the Japanese think that "Samsung just copied Japanese technology, and there is no need to learn from them."I can only be amazed at an entrepreneur who can justifiably say this. Regarding semiconductors, Japanese companies often say: "Samsung itself has not paid the development costs, so it will definitely make a profit"; there is another saying, "Their business model was formed under the dictatorship of Chairman Lee Kun-hee. Democratic Japanese companies cannot learn from them."Especially the second "Li Jianxi dictatorship theory", I can often hear it.

For Chairman Lee Kun Hee's very aggressive side of the business (a parody of GM in my opinion) like how he became the MBA record holder by sending his managers on a year long tour around the world What is the purpose of this book? For these, Japanese entrepreneurs are not even interested in writing books. Not only that, some entrepreneurs also said things like "I don't want to hear anything about Samsung Korea again."But when they heard that Li Jianxi was reported for improperly transferring shares to his eldest son, they gloated.This is because they have completely stopped thinking and have no sense of crisis in their hearts.

Li Jianxi has a strong sense of crisis for the future of Samsung. He called on all employees to "in order to deal with unpredictable crises, they must have a sense of crisis." The formation of this sense of crisis may take several years.But in any case, without this vision, he cannot be said to be a real entrepreneur.Under the influence of the financial crisis, South Korea's economy is struggling, and Samsung is trying to find countermeasures. Even so, after 5 years, Samsung may be replaced by companies from Taiwan or India.The so-called management has always been so cruel.