Game Development Giant

In the end, Carly recommended a person whom Jester was not familiar with. Adam Edgar was originally a good fit, but he was busy discussing with major shopping malls recently what would happen if their game consoles and games were released in large quantities. The problem of scheduling and supplying goods was really difficult to deal with, and he personally was not very willing to go to Japan, so he had no choice but to give up.

The person selected was not recruited by Jester, but his resume is very beautiful. He used to work for dec and was Carly Terry's junior fellow student when he was studying for a master's degree. She also spent a lot of effort to recruit her. He has outstanding abilities. Although he has only joined Fengxing Publishing for three months, his achievements are obvious to all in the company.

His name was James Hawke. Jester frowned and thought about it carefully before he had some impression. It seemed that he had signed the appointment himself.

And Jester also took the time to meet him. Although he was Carly's junior brother, he both went to Stanford to study for an MBA while working, so he was a little older than Carly. He was already thirty-five years old. The most important thing was The thing is, he likes Japan very much. He graduated from West Point Military Academy, which is famous all over the world, and then joined the army. He once served in the U.S. Army in Japan. After retiring, he went to Stanford for further study. His wife is Japanese, and he I also have deep feelings for Japan. This time he heard that the company was planning to send someone to take charge of the distribution work in Japan so that after the North American layout was almost completed in a year, the focus of expansion would shift to Japan, so he volunteered and said he was willing to go.

In fact, the expansion of the North American market is now in need of talents. Carly is still very reluctant to let him go. However, after the interview, she heard that her junior brother, who was several years older than her, was very determined. After some hesitation, Carly readily agreed.

Jester talked with James Hawke for more than an hour, and he was personally quite satisfied with the other person.

Especially since he has experience in Japan, speaks fluent Kanto and has a Japanese wife. He must know Japan very well. This is what Jester is most satisfied with. In his opinion, the most important thing for the person in charge of a region is to be familiar with local habits. If a random person is sent directly from the headquarters, he only knows It will definitely be counterproductive to rigidly apply what the headquarters has succeeded in without taking into account the local national conditions.

Especially where the cultural differences between the East and the West are too great.

For example, Jester had read a story before when he was studying. The source of the story was a very famous book that introduced Kaikai's achievements in the past thirty years, called "The Great Defeat." The examples inside should be very real. However, too much time has passed, and Jester can't remember some details very clearly, such as the protagonist of this incident and the company where it happened. However, he can recall the plot in detail.

Because there were very few domestic companies that could produce drum washing machines, imported drum washing machines were very popular at that time. This well-known home appliance company also took advantage of the trend and entered the Chinese market to promote their washing machines. Due to irregular logistics, the glass of their washing machine can easily break during transportation, and consumers then angrily return the product.

The person in charge of the mainland area of ​​this foreign home appliance giant was parachuted directly from the headquarters and had no understanding of the national conditions of the mainland. Everything is in accordance with the rules of the headquarters.

The local employees in the mainland have put forward suggestions for rectification. Just adding two pieces of foam to the packaging box can perfectly solve the problem. However, the person in charge of the mainland did not agree and reported the situation to the headquarters. Because this giant is so large, the number of reports to be processed is too many to count, and then half a year later. This report from mainland China has just been reviewed.

Then the headquarters gave a suggestion to add two more pieces of foam to the box.

Now that Jester thought of this story, he wanted to take it as a warning. First of all, the person in charge must understand the local conditions, otherwise what would happen would be even more outrageous and ridiculous than what he knew. Secondly, you must learn to delegate power, just like this story that Jester read. He also thought about this when he read it for the first time. It may not be that the person in charge of the airborne headquarters does not know that adding two pieces of foam can solve the problem. Maybe But he didn't have the right to add two pieces of foam to the box.

But later Jester overturned this idea. How could the general manager of a large region, responsible for a country and a market worth more than one billion in sales, not even have such rights? Isn't this nonsense?

Therefore, since Jester asked James Hawke to go to Japan, he would naturally give him the rights consistent with the regional director. Of course, it would be when he officially takes office as the director of the Japanese branch of Fengxing Publishing, not now. Now he is just a vice president sent by Jester Holdings to the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment. He is fully responsible for the sales and distribution of Mars Entertainment's games in Japan, which also relieves Tamahide Yoshiro from the heavy sales work.

Jester also talked about this matter with Tamahideyoshiro, and he was also afraid that the other party would worry that he was reducing his power by doing so. Well, Jester did not deny that he was indeed reducing his power, but Tamahideyoshiro took a very open-minded view. , because he had learned about the situation in the United States from Mark Saini before, so he was very accepting of this restructuring, because he himself did not like distribution and sales very much.

This attitude of Tamahide Yoshiro also made Jester very satisfied.

Therefore, after such a conversation with Carly, Jester's originally planned team of only a few people instantly expanded several times, but the business backbone that Howard Hawke planned to bring to Japan had more than 20 people. They had followed him to develop the market in North America before, and the overseas subsidies given to them by Jester were also very high. Although some of these people did not want to leave the United States and go overseas, there were still many more who could not withstand the temptation of high salaries.

Of course, these people are also business dispatches. It’s just that when Howard Hawke first went there, he had a few trustworthy employees to help him take over the work as soon as possible. When his work gets on track, these people will naturally return to the United States. After all, these people are not as useful as local Japanese employees. Not only are their salaries high, but they also require various vacations. If it were not for the fact that in the future, the core of the video games and electronics industry will be the United States, and all talents in this field will be concentrated in the United States. , Jester even wanted to move the company's headquarters to Japan.

The Japanese are famous for their hard work and are, after all, a nation that can invent death from overwork.

Moreover, we are still in the Showa generation. The Showa generation in this period have almost experienced the golden decade of starvation and freezing and the influence of work. Such Japanese employees are the most useful, but in the future, the Heisei generation will enter the society. , Jester thought about the misery that Japan's economy was about to collapse in the future and the comprehensive failure of Aben's economic law, and then he shook his head again and drove the unrealistic idea out of his mind.

Although there were only more than thirty people, Jester was not short of money, so he simply booked a flight with ANA.

It was daytime when the plane arrived at Osaka Itami Airport, where the Japanese branch of Mars Entertainment is based. This was also arranged by Jester with ANA to facilitate the adjustment of the time difference. Jester did not sleep much on the plane this time, mainly because of Sakaguchi. Boxin and Naka Yuji were a little excited to return to Japan after half a year, so they were too excited to sleep.

Both of them were extremely curious about designing games. This time, they finally got the opportunity to have a private chat about game design with Jester, who they considered to be the best game designer in the world. Naturally, they would not let it go.

Therefore, Jester was pestered by these two people who were about the same age as him all the way. After getting off the plane, he was very tired. He got into the car arranged by Tamahide Yoshiro at the airport and did not even go to the welcome party prepared by the branch. , just asked the driver to go to the hotel, entered the room, lay on the bed, and fell asleep.

Within a moment, snoring sounded.

This made Tamahide Yoshiro, who had been preparing for this welcome party for several days with the employees of the branch, look a little confused. However, after he asked others about the reason, he was also a little stunned. Jester just fell asleep in a hurry before getting on the plane. I had been on the plane for two hours, and there were lectures all the way on the plane, so I didn’t sleep for almost 20 hours. In addition, due to the jet lag of more than ten hours, I couldn’t hold on immediately after getting off the plane. Strange.

The problem is that the protagonist of this welcome party went to bed, leaving everyone else staring. Especially Tamahide Yoshiro looked awkwardly at the group of people who were waiting for his opinion, and he didn't know what to say. good.

However, he still had to make a decision. Without the rightful owner, the welcome party should still be held, because Jester had already explained before going to his room that he would go to rest first and what other activities would he have? Let Tamahide Yoshiro take charge.

After hesitating for a moment, Tamahide Yoshiro glanced at everyone. When he saw these people who had just got off the plane from the United States, although they were not as exhausted as Jester and fell asleep, almost all of them were carrying heavy fatigue. Juan Rong, in this state, these people must not be able to enjoy themselves even if they hold a welcome banquet. After all, after more than ten hours of long-term flight and more than ten hours of jet lag, no one has received professional training. No one can stand it.

Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, and with the owner giving up his burden, Tamahide Yoshiro still made a wise decision.

"Everyone, please go and rest first. The specific welcome meeting will be rescheduled for tomorrow."

Then, Tamahideyoshiro saw expressions of relief on everyone's faces.

After all, no one wants to participate in a banquet that is obviously just for eating, drinking and having fun in this state, because they are too tired.

ps: ps: I added the second chapter yesterday

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