Chapter 1924

Although people are always talking about personal heroism, whether a person has it or not will not stop the progress of the times. It's just a matter of speaking faster or slower.

Andy has the most say in this regard. His existence has changed a lot, but only changed the fate of a few of his people, but it has not changed the world, let alone the times.

Don't think of jobs as a God or a devil. Recognize what should be recognized and criticize what should be criticized. Jobs is a great genius, but at the same time he has a bad character.

In the face of this genius who has changed the world's technological process in the past few decades, no one grudges his admiration. When he is seriously ill, he should be blessed. But in addition to blessing, under the light, he also has many shortcomings.

In his first board meeting since jobs's surgery and return to apple, Andy found that illness didn't take away his talent, nor his arrogance.

Jobs is a person who will never respect others. The reason why he thinks he divides his sphere of influence is that on his first day back at Apple, he publicly accused Google, "we didn't enter the search market, but Google entered the mobile market.". There is no doubt that they want to put an end to the madness. "

Angry Google CEO Larry Page directly rebuked jobs for "tampering with history".

Many people think that jobs changed the mobile phone industry. In fact, Google acquired android as early as 2005, and research and development work has started since then. Google is not too late to launch the crazy mobile phone in 2007. Besides, it's no secret that Google CEO Schmidt was also a member of Apple's board at that time.

In jobs' eyes, Apple has no shortcomings. If you criticize apple, you don't appreciate its beauty. Andy, who proposed the concept of big screen, was the one who didn't appreciate Apple's beauty in jobs's eyes.

"You don't know anything!" Jobs's arrogant and contemptuous face on the board completely angered him.

"Yes, just like I don't understand the serious defects exposed by the spontaneous combustion of the crazy cell phone, but the company has no statement, which leads to the stock falling, I also don't understand that you have been trying to cover up your health status, which leads to the sharp Bo movement of the company's stock price every time you have a rest. Then, as the largest individual shareholder of apple, can you give me an answer, let me know!"

This was Andy's counterattack at that time. The tit for tat confrontation between the two made the first board of directors of Steve's return depart unhappily. Andy even shivered in spite of his anger. Steve's face was so ugly that he said the meeting was over and cut off the video signal directly.

Since then, the two men have completely stepped on the opposite side again. Andy even heard that jobs wanted Andy to put forward the board of directors. However, he didn't want to see that jobs was too strong, and no one was the other directors of his opponent, but he was happy with Andy's existence and success. He didn't want to kick Andy out of the board at all, which made jobs very angry and also felt that To helpless, even exposed the words of "leading wolves into the house".

Originally, I wanted to leave Apple's board of directors. I had a good idea of keeping Andy in Apple's board of directors. I decided to stay in Apple's board of directors. I didn't want to do anything else. I just wanted to block the obnoxious guy. When I decided to leave, I would give him a hard time and let jobs pay for his arrogance!

Well, Andy is so careful. He will stab Apple no matter whether he quarrels with jobs or not...

Thinking of this, Andy takes out his cell phone and dials it out.

"Hello, Schmidt, ha ha... Is my call unexpected? "

The call is to Schmidt, CEO of Google, a national Internet search giant. With the current competition between apple and Google in various fields, including the computer operating system market and the rapid growth of the smartphone market, the two directors are afraid that if the end comes, jobs will never let Schmidt stay on the board of apple.

Schmidt joined Apple's board of directors in 2006, but recently did not participate in the discussion of Apple's crazy mobile phone products, and has been choosing to avoid. Unfortunately, with the announcement of Google's Android and the latest chrome operating system plan, Google is more and more involved in Apple's core business areas, and Schmidt can do less and less in Apple's board of directors, because of the potential conflict of interest, he will have to withdraw from more meetings under the consideration of avoiding suspicion.

In this way, it would be better to opt out of Apple's board of directors directly, and it would also help it to pass part of the regulatory review of the relationship.

"Ha ha, Andy, it's the right time for you to call. You should also hear the wind... At the beginning of next month's board meeting, I will officially quit apple. "

There was Schmidt's laughter on the phone, which was not unpleasant, but rather very indifferent. Andy frowned slightly and said, "I'm sorry, did jobs find you?"

"Ha ha, he talked to me. Actually, it's normal. The overall competition between Google and apple has started. It's really not appropriate for me to stay on the board of directors of Apple again. This investigation by the regulatory authority, ha ha ha, I think it was also proposed by Jobs himself, in order to eliminate us. However, you don't need to worry about the investigation. After all, you are not a member of the board of directors of Google.So, I have discussed with other board members and decided to let you take over my board functions before leaving. I don't think you will refuse it, right? Ha ha... "

"Ha ha. Thank you. Of course I won't refuse. " Hearing each other's words, Andy's eyes became brighter and sharper, and his mouth turned up with a smile. It seems that there are many people who don't want jobs to be better. His marginal director's greatest help to be promoted to the director of the Remuneration Committee this time is undoubtedly due to the quarrel between Andy and jobs.

It can be said that most people on the board of directors don't like the autocratic and centralized jobs. If it wasn't for him to make more money for apple, people would choose to hold his nose and bear him in front of the interests. If one day it is determined that he can't create cost value for apple, jobs will be mercilessly swept out of the door as before.

In fact, jobs knows this very well, which is what Andy, as an opponent, admires him very much. Jobs has the irreplaceable use value of others, and he can make full use of this use value to strive for more benefits for himself.

“。。。 No one wants to see him unbridled. Someone has to stand up to question and restrain him. He understands that he is not the king of apple, and everything is not up to him. Everyone is optimistic about you. You are so young and successful. You are more successful than all of us. This is enough to suppress his arrogance! "

Andy has the final say in his mouth, but with a hint of gratitude, he said, "thank you for your trust and support. Don't worry, Apple Corp has no actual controller before. There will be no future. The only occupation is the board of directors. Jobs, the professional manager, must be responsible for the board and shareholders. "

" haha, that's right. Then we'll meet the directors. "

"OK, I'll see you in those two days. Then I'll invite you to have a drink..."

After hanging up the phone, Andy's smile disappeared and he became indifferent. All of them were old foxes. However, Andy didn't mind being shot by these old foxes. Anyway, he wasn't prepared to stay on the board of apple all the time. He was very interested in jobs. Only by fighting with experts, Andy could learn and succeed better Long.

Although Andy claimed that jobs was a professional manager before, it was just a belittle. Jobs was indeed one of the great innovators. Whether Andy liked him or not, he had to admit this.

In science and technology products, we all want to make new things. We can't expect to rely on one person to make mature things, or the industry to make mature things, to change the source of continuous profits. That's why when jobs died, many people said that Apple was finished, including the whole wall street.

The main reason is that Apple's success depends too much on an individual, not only his ability to work, but also his ideas. Once they fall into the hands of professional managers, those valuable things will be lost.

Some people will scoff at this view. After all, after the death of jobs, apple is not only unfinished, but also more powerful year by year. At last, it has a market value of hundreds of billions...

Yes, because this is too natural, because someone has laid such a good foundation. Next, if we only consider the current few years, it must be that the profitability of professional managers exceeds the profitability of entrepreneurs. The advantages and training of professional managers are all for increasing income.

But to guide enterprises to continue to invest in innovation and make long-term strategic planning for future development, professional managers are ineffective. We need to know that if we want to become a hundred year enterprise, we can't just look at the short-term earnings. We can extract unlimited potential, gain short-term profits, and lose the whole future!