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...attitudes and ways of behaving that are irreconcilable with our society and culture. Copycat management! We are about nurturing individuals and making their hearts beat passionately. If every Japanese company took the Nissan approach to solving its problems, Japan would fall apart." Three years ago, Sony's Nobuyuki Idei brushed aside the Nissan case as if it had no relevance at all: "The automobile industry is child's play" is all he had to say. Last week, Idei chose Stringer to succeed...
...Everyone knows that Stringer is a highly intelligent individual with superb management skills. But observers in the West are wondering how a foreigner who speaks no Japanese can hope to triumph at a company as clannish and complex as Sony. In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past. Unlike his predecessor, Norio Ohga, who was the surrogate son of co-founder Akio Morita, Idei was never viewed as an heir. Insiders referred to him as the company's first "salary-man CEO," implying that he was merely a hire and not a family member. Idei fancied himself...
...Idei was, after all, a Sony man who had grown up in the company; as such, he was subject to the dynamics of feudal loyalty that governed its ways. Stringer stands outside the firm's hierarchical family system. His inherent foreignness may well provide him a degree of freedom to maneuver, which none of his illustrious predecessors enjoyed. His challenge will be to integrate Sony's electronics and entertainment businesses, which depend on content creation and distribution, into the single value chain that has been Idei's vision for Sony. If Stringer fails, Japan's business community might experience...
...thrive in alien, even potentially inhospitable cultures. Welcome to Tokyo, Sir Howard. You will need every ounce of your intercultural sensitivity to thrive in your new post, CEO of Japan's struggling Sony Corp. During a capacity-crowd press conference last week in Tokyo, outgoing Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei, 67, announced that he was voluntarily stepping down after almost five years and that Stringer, 63, rather than one of a number of oft mentioned Japanese heirs apparent, was replacing...
...rest of Sony has flagged, particularly the consumer-electronics division. Kutaragi's promotion to executive deputy president last March restoked rumors that he's next in line to succeed chairman and CEO Nobuyuki Idei, 66. Kutaragi won't comment on that, but he does acknowledge that his mandate at the company has expanded. Sony needs to return to its roots as an innovator of leading-edge technologies, he says, and rely less on sexy design and savvy marketing. It won't be easy, but Sony's video-game warrior is ready to do battle. --By Jim Frederick. With reporting...