Chapter 992： ABC adjustment

Manhattan.

Gisele Bundchen and Alexander Ambo took a taxi and walked hand in hand into the apartment building where they lived. They laughed and went to the top floor of the mansion, only to find that Miranda Kerr had returned and was in the kitchen. What is prepared?

In exchange for high-heeled shoes, glanced at the figure in the kitchen, Giselle could not help but pout, this situation is really rare. Alexander is a secluded spit: "Can she eat?"

"Hey, you are back," heard the movement in the living room, Miranda turned his head and greeted the two girls enthusiastically.

The two women did not respond in a salty way, and Miranda didn't mind. He turned his head and continued to be busy.

Today, Eric is coming over, she made up her mind to show her performance and try to impress Eric to let her go back to Los Angeles.

In March, Eric came to New York. Miranda was full of little emotions. She didn't want to live with Giselle and Alexander, and she didn't want to be entrusted by Eric Cindy Crawford like a child. Watching.

However, afterwards, although she knew that Cindy or Eric might be deliberate, she was scared.

Miranda did not want to live with Giselle and Alexander. Cindy temporarily let her live in her apartment and took care of her.

However, since you want to be a model, you can't talk about it.

So Cindy took her to the Elite Model Agency to participate in the interview, along with dozens of girls who were collected by Elite scouts from all over North America.

Because Cindy personally took her, at the interview site, I noticed that dozens of girls looked at Cindy like a queen. She felt quite proud of her heart, and she would certainly be able to easily reach Cindy's status in the future.

It may be Cindy's sake. During the waiting process, many girls deliberately talked with her. Some people also recognized that she was one of the four tennis girls in "The Royal Casino of 007" and also showed it on the Disney Channel TV series. Face, so she asked why she came to Elite's model interview.

Miranda naturally cannot say that she was annoyed that Eric was brought to New York, so she was very proud to say that she was not interested in the performance and wanted to try the model.

Then she felt that some girls looked at her like an idiot, and another girl joked and said, ‘I’ve only heard of the model that I’m trying to be an actor’.

Miranda certainly knows the truth, but his face is still not showing up, and his heart is naturally depressed.

She took a photo with a group of girls and walked around for a long time. Finally, she got some 'special' treatment. The Elite manager who participated in the interview personally explained her interview results: her height was low and her face was not three-dimensional. The average step is not experienced in vocational training. The overall qualification does not have the high-fashion model potential, and only the pure commercial model route can be taken.

Before the appearance of the Vimy show, a model, you want to reach the level of supermodel, you must first be able to get the recognition of high street fashion brands such as Prada, Tiffany, Chanel, only to achieve cooperation with these brands, improve themselves The style, you can further gain the recognition of the fashion circle, and step by step to the highly sought after supermodel status.

However, Miranda's appearance is of high qualification and basically has no connection with high street fashion.

This means that without any background opportunities, Miranda can't be a supermodel in this life. He can only be an ordinary business model. In fact, it is the kind of clothing display, print advertising, auto show business, etc. Waiting for anything that can be done but basically has no chance of coming out. Of course, commercial models are not the ultimate, Cindy is one. Moreover, in the original time and space, although separated by 20 years, the upper trajectory of Cindy and Miranda is almost the same.

In view of Miranda's situation, Elite can only give her a training contract similar to the intern, the company provides accommodation, a monthly fixed salary of 1,000 US dollars, after signing the Miranda must receive regular training of Elite and complete the work provided by the company.

Miranda was even more angry at the time, realizing that this might be Cindy or Eric deliberate, and the girl had a rebellious mentality.

Ok, what do you say, then what?

I signed the contract with ease, and then a Cindy and Elite agent took her to a place where she might work in the future. For example, one stop is a day's auto show, changing a few times a day. Ten sets of clothes were tossed to the scene of the tear-fitting dressing, and the living props that were being placed like dolls in the new season of "The Bridge" were being recorded...

In the evening, when Cindy and Elite's agent came to Manhattan's West Village with Miranda, they saw that they would live in a building with less than 60 square meters with seven other girls who are not much worse than her. When the old apartment was old, Miranda finally collapsed.

I was taken home by Cindy and slept. The next day, Miranda didn’t mention Elite’s work anymore. Cindy didn’t mention it anymore, as if nothing happened yesterday.

After breakfast, Cindy took Miranda to her IMG model agency, took out the already prepared contract and signed the girl to her own broker. Then she helped her move to the apartment in Giselle and Alexandria.

Due to age restrictions, Miranda can't get too much work right now. In the past few months, Cindy has never treated her as a child at all. She often takes her around, listens more, sees more, Miranda More and more, in the lounge waiting for the interview, the girls looked at her eyes really right, if possible, she wanted to see herself with the eyes of an idiot.

Therefore, I heard from Cindy that Eric will come over today, and the girl immediately rushed back to the apartment, wanting to please Eric, and return to Los Angeles. Anyway, she is now a little interested in being a model.

After a week of rest in East Hampton and coming to Manhattan, Eric first faced the internal personnel issues of the ABC Group.

This issue has nothing to do with infighting and layoffs, but it is also quite tricky. Due to the growing strength of the ABC Group in recent years, it is natural for companies to become interested in the management of ABC Group. After all, Eric can produce countless brilliant ideas, but if there is no excellent management team to implement, The Firefly Group is also unlikely to develop so rapidly.

The party that wants to smash the corner is Comcast, which is the CEO of ESPN TV, Steve Bernstein.

After signing a $9.0 billion huge rights rights contract with the American Football League, ESPN’s operating conditions have not been dragged down, but it has become increasingly hot. With the increase in cable TV revenue and advertising revenue, this year’s ESPN TV station will be The entire group provides more than $500 million in net profit.

Controlling ESPN TV For more than a decade, Steve Bernstein can say that this small TV station, which used to have less than 300,000 users, has become the largest basic cable station in North America with more than 90 million users.

In any company, to achieve such outstanding results, it is necessary to get promotion. Eric will not let the company's talents be lost.

However, the current situation of the Firefly Group is that the entire management system is very stable.

Under Eric, Kasenberg and Frank Wells are in charge of the entire Firefly Group, and are also responsible for the group's film and television entertainment business. In the television business, after Tom Murphy retired, Robert Eiger and the Metropolitan ABC's veteran Stephen Burke served as the CEO and president of the ABC Group, responsible for the Firefly Group's television business. Further down, is the head of the specific branch, such as Kenneth Horn of New Line Film, Robert Thompson of Bo Wei Distribution, Stan Winston in the digital field, Anne Sway of AE TV Nie, Steve Bernstein of ESPN TV, Barry Weiss of Firefly Records and so on.

The various departments and subsidiaries in charge of the top executives of these companies form the Firefly Group with more than 120,000 employees worldwide.

Others don't mention it. According to Steve Bernstein's achievements and his current level, he will at least reach the position of ABC president. However, none of the people above him are mediocre who can be replaced. These people are not likely to leave and retire in the short term, which is quite embarrassing.

Eric is not a king. It is impossible to be able to give you an official. Simply raising salaries is not very attractive to managers like Steve Bernstein who want to get more room to play.

On the other hand, Comcast's position for Steve Bernstein is also very attractive, chief operating officer.

Comcast's control is still in the hands of founder Ralph Roberts and his son Ralph Roberts, who served as the company's chairman and CEO.

Steve Bernstein’s position as chief operating officer is equivalent to the president of the Comcast Group. He is directly responsible for the CEO Roberts and his son, and controls the operation of the entire Comcast cable TV network, although it is not a monopoly. However, Comcast, which is in a fast-rising period, has a lot of room to play out than the ESPN TV station that has almost reached its peak.

Fireflies do not have a position as chief operating officer. According to management authority, the functions of the chief operating officer are handled by Kasenberg and Frank Wells respectively.

It is also impossible for Eric to set up such a similar position in order to retain Steve Bernstein. The stability of the firefly group management system means that the power distribution is in a very harmonious equilibrium. Depriving power from the original manager and giving it to another brand-new manager will only cause the original management system to be out of balance.

However, by zooming in on the entire firefly system, it is likely that there will be a vacant position for Steve Bernstein, which is AOL. The management talent demonstrated by Steve Bernstein is enough to be the position of AOL CEO. The two companies also have many similarities, and there is no such thing as interlacing.

In fact, most of the giant enterprise managers in the United States cannot be regarded as 'professional counterparts'. The scale of the enterprise is large to a certain extent, and the requirements for managers are no longer professional skills, but a management philosophy of one person.

Of course, now that everything has not settled, it is still unknown whether it will be able to take control of AOL from the Steve Case team. But in order to avoid Steve Bernstein being dug away, Eric still has to stabilize each other in advance.

At the ABC headquarters in Upper West Side, the time is nearing the end of work, and Eric and Steve Bernstein, who came from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, have been chatting for an afternoon.

Steve Bernstein’s position on Comcast has been heart-warming, but at the same time some are looking forward to controlling AOL, a rising Internet technology company with more rapid growth. Therefore, the two people discussed in great detail, and Eric's setting of the future direction of AOL was also recognized by Steve Bernstein.

Finally, Steve Bernstein said: "Eric, in this case, I can wait for a month to give Comcast a reply. But if you can't get AOL's control, I'm afraid it will be Officially submitted your resignation letter."

Eric nodded, and all that he could say was finished. If he couldn’t stay, it would be no way. But he still couldn't help but say: "Actually, Steve, even if this failed, but if you are willing to wait another two years, I can guarantee that the firefly is destined to acquire a telecom operator, I can still give it to You come to manage."

Steve Bernstein smiled and shook his head gently. "Eric, I am very grateful for your trust in me. I also know that you will succeed in the future. But I can't do it now. A promise without any clue, give up the opportunity."

Eric can only regret that, in fact, with the departure of Joma Ollila on Nokia, there is a Nokia president who can hand over to Steve Bernstein.

However, the span of the two industries, media and telecommunications, is a bit too big. There is a lesson that Apple used to hire John Sculley from the beverage company as CEO to lead the company's decline. Eric did not take it. What's more, Nokia's headquarters is in Northern Europe, and Steve Bernstein is unlikely to accept this position.

Agreed to agree with this, Eric got up and reached out again to Steve Bernstein: "So, have dinner together, I have already made a reservation."

"Of course," Steve Bernstein reached out and held a tight grip with Eric.

The two greeted several other senior executives at the headquarters, left the ABC headquarters and rushed to a top restaurant in the Rockefeller Center in Midtown.

After dinner, Eric personally asked the driver to send Steve Bernstein to the Plaza Hotel where he stayed, and then returned to the penthouses of the three girls on Madison Avenue with a slight drink.