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...must be thrilling to assume command of Sony, a luminous icon of Japan's postwar recovery. Thrilling, and perhaps sobering. Howard Stringer read history at Oxford, and now he is making it as the latest in a short list of Westerners to be installed as chief executive of a Japanese corporation. Doubtless, Stringer is aware that the significance of his promotion extends beyond Sony to the larger context of the convulsive changes that are transforming the landscape of Japanese society...
...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...
...Howard stringer says that sake is "not an antidote to jet lag," but he's sure going to need something that is. The American citizen, born and raised in Britain, was named CEO of Sony Corp. last week, replacing Nobuyuki Idei, 67, who, at a packed press conference in Tokyo, announced that he was voluntarily stepping down. Stringer, 63, is going to keep offices in both Japan and New York, and will continue to spend what little free time he's likely to have at his homes in New York and Oxfordshire, England. That amounts to a lifestyle that...