The Industrial Giant Reborn.

Chapter 428 Beauty and the Beast

No matter what kind of cooperation, the amount of cooperation and investment required for this iron ore mine is in billions of dollars. Such a large-scale cooperation plan can be ranked in the global mining market. If such negotiations go well, , it may take half a year. If it doesn't go well, it's normal for it to take several years or even longer. After all, in reality, there are many such things now.

Zhou Jiayang also immediately set up a professional team to negotiate with various mining companies. Some of them were former British ghosts within Hutchison. Now, Hutchison Capital has begun to radiate Europe and the United States. These people are also useful. The land of martial arts.

For this matter, Chen Zhiwen is not in a hurry, because industries such as games and electronics need to seize the time, because if you miss half a year, you may miss a lot of golden opportunities. Even Red Bull needs to pay attention to speed, because there is no formation When monopolizing, many giants such as Erle have the opportunity to overtake successfully with their huge capital and perfect channels. As for other real estate industries, they also have their own time requirements.

But this iron ore is already his own in terms of legal rights and interests. Even if it is three, five or ten years later, it doesn't matter. The price of iron ore in the future will still rise steadily. will rise rapidly.

In this case, Chen Zhiwen naturally needs to consider the overall situation. The most important thing is not how much money he can sell, but how he can use this opportunity to squeeze into the mining development ship. When the right time comes in the future, he can Through mergers and acquisitions, to expand the Hehuang mining industry.

After Hutchison Mining's discovery of a giant iron ore spread in Hong Kong for a while, the popularity has subsided. After all, this is only the income of a large consortium in Hong Kong, and it has almost no effect on Hong Kong locals.

And Chen Zhiwen also welcomed another legendary CEO of the 20th century to work for him: Michael Eisner.

The vice president of Paramount decided to serve as the CEO of Disney after agreeing to join Chen Zhiwen's invitation. He came to Hong Kong today because he has been working at Disney for a month and has a basic understanding of the company. He came to have appropriate discussions with his boss. communication to facilitate understanding of subsequent development plans.

"How does it feel to be the CEO of Disney for a month?" Chen Zhiwen personally brewed a cup of coffee and handed it to Eisner.

"Thank you." Michael Eisner said: "Eric, I have to say that the current Disney is completely rotten, much worse than I imagined, and many of these things are simply unreasonable.

Throughout the company, many people have signed a free working agreement. As a result, many people can't come 2 days a week, and there is no way to supervise their work. What?
In the two parks, many employees are also holding the mentality of supporting the elderly. They are busy day by day. They even ignore the inquiries of many customers and insult and complain about customers. Even if they know that I am going to investigate, many places Hygiene is not good.

There is also the film and television department, normal Hollywood film companies, under normal circumstances, except for some capable supporting actors, basically they will not sign work agreements with ordinary people, they will come here temporarily when needed, and sign short-term contracts based on photos After the film is over, it will be disbanded, and these people can also find jobs in other film companies, so that they are also free, and we can control the cost very conveniently.

But that's not the case with Disney. They actually signed long-term agreements with many people, and now Disney's movies are not that good. These people have nothing to do every day, but we still have to pay them tens of millions in salary a year.

If it is normal, I will fire these people immediately, because we have signed a contract with the Ministry of Commerce, and only 1% can be fired at most, which makes me a bit at a loss. . "

"If Disney wasn't so bad, how could I, a Chinese, be able to acquire it?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile and shook his head.

Before the acquisition of Disney, Chen Zhiwen probably knew some of the main problems of Disney, and he can only use two words to describe them: the worst.

Almost every department has problems of corruption, incompetence, and inequality. After the death of Walt Disney, the second generation of the Disney family was too useless. They didn’t understand the operation of such a large company at all, and they refused to leave it to professional managers. , you have to intervene yourself.

A family is not united as one. Everyone has their own agenda. For their own benefit, they annex the company's rights and interests, and there are all kinds of internal fights. At the same time, due to lack of ability, they are very conservative in management.

It is said that the decline of Disney is because young people no longer like Mickey Mouse, but the reality is that historically, after ten years of management by Michael Eisner, Mickey Mouse has become the most favorite cartoon image among contemporary children. The fundamental reason is actually that there is no innovation.Even if it is not a new cartoon character, it is still Mickey Mouse. There must be constant new animations and new stories to attract users. But obviously the second generation Disney does not have this ability. They will only rest on the great achievements created by the first generation Disney. Among them, I was eating the remaining dividends. Later, when the dividends were exhausted, I started to operate in debt, and until now.

In the original history, many high-level executives with foreign surnames left Disney. If Michael Eisner hadn't turned the tide, Disney might not have survived the 90s.

"But even if you acquire it, these problems will still exist. You can't just keep spending money to subsidize it." Michael Eisner said.

"Since you have agreed to the Ministry of Commerce, it is impossible to breach the contract. In the next two years, according to our authority, first dismiss 1% of the people. Try to take it slowly and deter others, not to mention how much they can contribute to the company. , but at least you need to do your own thing well." Chen Zhiwen said: "This is also the price of the acquisition, but in the past two years, you can also arrange for people to observe all the people and evaluate the basic information. It's really not good. If the time agreed with the Ministry of Commerce arrives, all of them will be dismissed immediately.”

"To fire them all, such a large number of layoffs will probably cause chaos within the company." Michael Eisner thought for a while and said.Although many people are dawdling, they don’t really do nothing. They can only say they know how to do things, but they don’t do it carefully, don’t take it seriously, do things as simple as they can, etc., but they can be regarded as the current internal operation of the company. It doesn’t matter if there are a few less, but if there are too many, it will definitely affect the company.

"So we need to make preparations in advance, such as recruiting more people. As long as these people are willing to work hard, we should focus on training them. In the past two years, we will slowly let them take over the jobs of those dawdling people. Just empty these people out slowly." Chen Zhiwen said.

"In this case, the cost will be considerable." Michael Eisner reminded.

"It doesn't matter. We have to look at it from a long-term perspective. Even if we keep these people in vain, we must gradually let capable and responsible people do various things in the company. Only in this way can we ensure that Disney can grow from Get out of the quagmire." Chen Zhiwen said, he doesn't care about a small amount of money, what he cares about is that Disney can return to normal as soon as possible. In the original history, it took Eisner almost 5 years to turn Disney into a profit. Time for Disney to return to its previous peak.

But the difference is that at that time, Eisner had the right to directly lay off large-scale layoffs, but now he cannot It is equivalent to a bank that is struggling because of bad debts. If the boss is not short of money, he can divest the bad debts and leave the rest to capable professional managers.

Anyway, after two years, you can directly lay off employees. Doing so now can be regarded as preparing human resources in advance, and it is also a necessary operation.

"Well, if that's the case, it will be much more convenient for me. If these people really can't do it, just remove them and recruit suitable people." Michael Eisner nodded and said.

"So the current problem still requires a large amount of funds. Otherwise, the gods will not be able to do anything. The two parks require a large amount of money. The same goes for animation creation, as well as other businesses." Chen Zhiwen nodded. The boss said: "I can invest 2 million U.S. dollars, but this amount of money is not much for the entire Disney, especially if you still need reform, then it is good to spend one year. So, this 2 million U.S. dollars, my The idea is that it needs to be used to make more money.”

"Chen Sheng means making movies?" Michael Eisner guessed what the boss meant. He could make a lot of money quickly in a short time. Apart from financial operations, the only thing left was making movies. This is the specialty of Hollywood companies. Disney is the same, but it's just such a waste. It hasn't produced any good movies in the past ten years, and its ranking has reached the last place in Hollywood. If it didn't have enough historical background, it would have fallen out of the position of one of the eight giants of Hollywood.

"Yes, making new movies is also the animation movie that Disney is best at. If you can rely on one movie to succeed, you can not only get a lot of income, but also create a new IP, which can also increase Disney's internal confidence. , In this case, in a short period of time, it will be enough to maintain Disney’s daily operations.” Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, now Disney, the entire group loses more than 1 million US dollars a year, and it will take a long time to change so many loss-making departments. The most efficient way is to make a quick sum of money first to alleviate the company's decline.

"What movie is that?" Eisner asked.

"Look at this." Chen Zhiwen handed over a book, and Eisner took a look. It was "Beauty and the Beast" by the famous French writer Char Belleau.

(End of this chapter)