Massyoshi Sun, founder and CEO of Softbank, is often seen as a Japanese media technology conglomerate as a dreamer, a financial engineer, and a speculator. But his career – which spanned the launch of a personal computer and the Internet, the dot com boom and its recession, the rise of China, the global financial crisis, and the emergence of artificial intelligence – provides eight main lessons to leaders. It includes: converting adversity into an advantage, finding a way to continue, communicate between East and West, search for guides and trainees, expand or return home, and not to allow love to exceed logic, caution against mercenaries, and focus on the future.
