American Fortune Life

"By the way, dear, I have something to discuss with you."

In the Maybach car driving on the streets of Manhattan, Andy said to Ivana who was reading the newspaper beside him.

"Yeah." Ivana hummed lightly, flipping through the newspaper while waiting for Andy's next words.

"It's like this. I'm going to recruit five flight attendants. This time when I come back, I even make the coffee myself on the plane. It's really inconvenient."

"Ok?"

"Wow" Ivana frowned slightly, closed the newspaper, then her eyes sparkled, the corners of her mouth slightly turned up, she looked at Andy with a half-smile, and Andy looked at her very calmly, shrugged her shoulders .

Ivana pondered for a while, then raised her eyebrows and turned her lips up. While flipping through the newspaper again, she said lightly: "Yes, I will host the interview for the last level. Besides, the flight attendant is just a very simple job. It doesn't require too many special skills, and it's not that you can't do it when you're older..."

The corner of Andy's mouth twitched a few times unnaturally. Sure enough, this shrewd woman was planning to get a group of empty moms to take her to the plane. Surrender.

"Ahem, it's like this. I'm going to recruit flight attendants around the world with an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars. In order to better promote AMC TV, I want to make this a variety show, just like a beauty pageant. Of course, looks are not The most important thing is to let them PK show, let the audience participate in the interaction, decide the top five, and become the flight attendant of our private jet. The first place will become the flight attendant. I think this will become a big gimmick to attract the public Whether it's advertising or naming, it's a good profit..."

Hearing Andy's imaginative proposal, Ivana, who was still a little tired and helpless, also brightened up. Although she admitted that Andy's idea is very good, becoming a flight attendant on Andy Smith's private jet would also be very attractive. With an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars, which is almost four times the annual salary of flight attendants in all airlines, this program is likely to be successful, but it undoubtedly gave her an annoyed feeling that her man is screening beautiful women around the world to serve him.

Looking at Andy with sharp eyes, Hongchun also pouted slightly, looking unhappy.

"I want you to be the main judge. We can even contact local tycoons like Abu, rich people or companies who intend to add flight attendants to their private jets. We can all contact them. The selection program for flight attendants is still blank. I think it is very important. There is an audience market.

Regardless of etiquette, vision, fashion sensitivity, etc., you are the most suitable judge as the main judge. We can also implant the Ivana brand into the entire program. What do you think? "

Andy originally had such an idea to dispel Ivanna's jealousy, but as he talked, he realized that it might not be unreasonable, and Ivana also quickly jumped out of the previous little depression and ruled out her own family. It is indeed a good idea for men to think about looking for benefits for themselves.

"We can make this show a brand. The first season is to recruit our private jets. If the effect of the broadcast is good, I think someone will come to our door in the next season, and we can also rent out flight attendants for private jets. To promote this and increase my reputation, I think there will be many rich people who are willing to spend this money to keep this show going!" Andy stretched out his hand to pinch Ivana's chin proudly, raised his eyebrows and said with a smirk.

"You really are..." Ivana shook her head dumbfounded, but this idea is a very good idea. Some rich people don't mind spending millions to get a chance to show off on TV, such as Her own dad, ahem.

On the contrary, the things I was worried about before have become less worrying. This kind of thing is impossible to prevent, and if this program is really going to be run, it will lose the original intention of recruiting to a large extent. In the end, even Might turn into a reality show,

The $200,000 annual salary of a private jet flight attendant may not end up in the eyes of some girls who feel that they are famous, so it will become a topic of discussion again.

"You can try it, but if the show is to be exciting, I'm afraid it needs to be carefully planned. You can't PK deliver food and water." Ivana said with a coquettish look at Andy.

"I just had this idea. I'll tell Plepler about it later, and let the editors and directors on the TV station think about it, but now the matter of recruiting flight attendants seems to have become a reality show, tsk tsk, really You know what it's going to look like in the end."

"Heck, you thought about it too? After becoming famous, the mentality is different, and you may not be able to fall in love with the job with an annual salary of 200,000, but it's interesting, isn't it?" Ivana said with a smile on her lips. .

"Don't fail to recruit the last flight attendant, it will be a big joke!" Andy's mouth twitched a few times, and he smiled wryly.

"Heck...not necessarily impossible."

Watching Ivana walk into the CP building, Andy raised the car window, took out the phone, called Plepler, talked about the idea of ​​the flight attendant recruitment reality show, and then threw the matter to I asked Plepler to call the variety show directors to perfect it.

On the other hand, Andy himself quickly put this matter behind him. He only needs to see five attractive and beautiful flight attendants board his private jet at the end and provide him with services.

In the meeting room of Gaia Corporation, Andy sat on the chief seat, listening to the subordinates of his think tank report to him.

"The CEO of General Electric, Jeff Immelt, is a typical professional manager. He can even be said to be a bit too professional. His style is to "report good news but not bad news". He doesn't like to hear bad news, and he doesn't like to deliver bad news information.

In the seven years since he took office, GE Capital has shrunk dramatically. In order to maintain performance growth, he continued to buy, buy, buy, buy Vivendi Entertainment for US$5.5 billion, and British Medical Imaging Company for US$9.5 billion. . .

The reason why General Electric suffered heavy losses during the subprime mortgage crisis was that Immelt allocated a large sum of money to the research and development department. In order to increase short-term profits, he could only seek results from finance.

GE went from being a manufacturing-focused company to a diversified conglomerate with no clear purpose or mission beyond short-term profit. It worked very well for a while, long enough to make him a hero and a role model in the eyes of executives who relished such dramatic changes.

The bubble burst, the limits of short-term thinking began to be revealed, and the enormous risks that strategy exposed GE to.

After suffering this heavy blow, we guess that in the next few years, GE will return to the old GM path, divesting most of GE’s financial business and real estate assets and businesses that do not match them, allowing the company to refocus on its previous core The business serves manufacturing operations in the aerospace, energy and medical markets. "

"The value of any model does not lie in short-term success, but in long-term feasibility." Andy said with emotion after listening to the situation reported by his subordinates. For these professional managers, they only focus on immediate profits and keep their own throne. I also have a clear understanding of my limited thinking and vision.

This kind of professional manager is a very deadly poison for large companies that want long-term development. With lessons learned from the past, it is undoubtedly very timely for Andy who wants to integrate his assets. He needs to choose himself more carefully. The right-hand man who can make quick money may not be the most suitable candidate.

"What about the situation of NBCUniversal?" After hearing the above report, Andy became more confident in getting NBCUniversal from General Electric. This kind of guy who is eager to get out of the predicament and wants to secure the throne is definitely very easy to deal with of,

"For NBC, the 2004 closing of "Friends" was a major watershed moment for them! Since then, NBC has never found a suitable show that can match its "must watch TV" claim.

And other networks began to challenge nbc for thursday night slots. They arranged the most powerful programs to compete for this time slot, and in the end, nbc's fortress was easily broken.

The program crisis brought about by the departure of "Friends" has not been alleviated until today. In the 2006-2007 season, among the four major TV networks including Fox, NBC ranked last with 8.9 million viewers, a year-on-year decrease of 9%. NBC's annual revenue fell from $2.9 billion in 2004 to $1.9 billion.

In the new season of 2007-2008, the new programs launched by nbc are only 4 TV dramas and 1 game program, which is the least among the four TV networks. According to the data forecast we obtained from Nielsen, an authoritative US ratings calculation company, in the new season, nbc's ratings performance will still be the weakest.

At this time, the monopoly of the TV network has long been broken, and its overall audience is losing at an average rate of 10% per year. "

"It seems that the group's advantages and resources can't solve the lack of NBC's core program products. Maybe they will be very happy that I become their new boss." Andy raised his eyebrows a little teasingly, and said a little proudly.

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but chuckled. Of course, they were all very convinced of their boss's abilities. Not to mention anything else, the rapid development of the current AMC TV station is enough to explain everything.