11月1日，索尼中國總代表根本章二先生來到天津南開大學，為該校日本研究院及商學院近百名學生和索尼粉絲帶來了主題為“創新與領導力”的精彩演講。講解結束后，根本先生接受了南開大學日本研究院的聘請成為客座教授，今后將在教育領域繼續致力于知識傳播與經驗共享。

正式開講前，南開大學副校長嚴純華先生與根本先生進行了親切會談。根本先生表示：“如果通過這次分享可以幫助年輕一代獲得一些國際化觀點，并為中日友好做出貢獻，那么我將不勝榮幸。”嚴校長感謝根本先生的到來，并表示將與索尼一道為教育和產業的發展繼續做出貢獻。

在為學生們展開“創新與領導力”的講解前，根本先生首先與大家分享了索尼公司的經營現狀。他表示，近年來，索尼通過結構改革，出售或分離了部分業務，通過給子公司更多自主權，讓改革決策更加迅速。索尼在中國開展業務已有二十余載，不僅為中國消費者帶來了硬件產品、娛樂內容和優質服務，而且在社會貢獻方面也在教育和環境領域著力打造了許多特色項目，索尼希望“植根中國，長遠發展”。

?“創新與領導力”是本次演講的重點與精華。通過列舉索尼在關于創新方面的舉措，根本先生啟發大家在創新時要具有好奇心及對不了解之事的坦率之心、執著且富有行動力，同時要客觀地看待問題。關于領導力，他分享了在商業領域，因為通常顧客無法表達他們的需求，需要具有領導力的人才發現問題，創造需求。因此一個具有領導力的人要能坦率地承認失敗、持續挑戰、不斷開展新事物的姿態并樂于學習。

在會議結束后，同學們簇擁著總代表爭先恐后地提問或講述自己的感想。有同學說：“通過今天的講座了解到了‘不一樣’的索尼，感覺離它又近了一點，愛它又多了一點。”還有同學表示：“平時很難有機會與跨國公司企業領導人面對面交流，根本先生的演講內容切實，展現了索尼踏實、務實的風格，十分欽佩。”

會后，南開大學日本研究院聘請根本先生成為其客座教授，期待今后能有更多機會與年輕的學生與粉絲分享索尼領導人的洞察與見解。根本先生再次強調自己愿繼續為下一代和中日友好貢獻微薄之力。

English：

Nemoto Shoji, the Sony Group China Representative, upon invitation, visited Nankai University in Tianjin on November 1st. Mr. Nemoto delivered a wonderful speech with the theme of “Innovation and leadership” to hundreds of students from Institute of Japanese Studies and Business Institute including Sony’s fans. After the speech, Mr. Nemoto accepted the invitation from Institute of Japanese Studies of Nankai University to become a guest professor, committed to devoting continually to spread knowledge and share experience in the field of education in future.

Before the formal speech, Mr. Yan Chunhua, the Vice-president of Nankai University, held a cordial talk with Mr. Nemoto. “If I could help younger generations to obtain more global perspectives and to improve Sino- Japanese relationship, I should regard it as a great honor. ”Mr. Nemoto said. President Yan thanked Mr. Nemoto for his visit, and expressed his hope that Nankai would team up with Sony to contribute to the development of both education and the industry.

Before elaborating on the details of “innovation and leadership”, Mr. Nemoto firstly introduced to the audience current status of Sony. He revealed that, during implementing structural reform, Sony had transferred and spun off some business. Given more autonomous rights, the subsidiaries could make decisions much quickly. Sony has been conducting business in China for over two decades. Not only does it provides hardware products, entertainment contents and high-quality services to Chinese consumers, but also it makes efforts to establish many distinctive CSR programs in educational and environmental fields. Sony hopes to deeply root in China and aims for long-term development.

Sony’s innovation legacy and new programs constitute the central part of the speech titled “Innovation and leadership”. About how to nurture willingness and capability on innovation, Mr. Nemoto gave the audience some handy tips:

Be curious and be frank to things unknown

Perseverance and execution

Facing issues objectively?

Leadership is another topic that aroused great interests of the audience. As Mr. Nemota put it, in the business field, customers usually cannot clearly express their needs, so they rely on persons in the leadership position to identify their problems, provide solutions and create demands. As a result, we expect leaders to have the following tributes:

Admit his/her failure frankly.

Continue to embark on challenge.

Develop new things continuously.

Wiling to learn.????

At the end of the meeting, the students surrounded Mr. Nemoto and couldn’t wait to ask questions or to express their feelings. One of the student said, “I found a different Sony from today's lecture and I feel I am kind of closer and loving it a bit more.” “Normally we have few opportunities to communicate face to face with multinational enterprises’ leaders. Mr. ?Nemoto’s speech was rich in content, showing Sony’s sincere and pragmatic style. I appreciate it a lot.” said another student.

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After the meeting, Institute of Japanese Studies of Nankai University formally invited Mr. Nemoto to act as their guest professor, looking forward to having more opportunities to sharing his observations and thoughts. Mr. Nemoto once again emphasized his willingness to contribute persistently to the next generations and the friendship between China and Japan.

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