Before the Elite changed hands, the deep resources and connections shown in the daily work and the success of the new media operation department had already made Grace have considerable prestige within the company, otherwise John Casablanca would not have turned his face because he felt that his status was threatened, and Simon Westeros personally appeared this time, Grace's takeover of Elite was very smooth.

Because Simon revealed her mind to let her take charge of the Elite last year, Grace, who did not doubt that the man had the ability to push her to the top, had privately considered this matter more than once, and sent Simon upstairs to rest, and in the following hour, Grace began to make vigorous adjustments to the Elite in an orderly manner according to some previous considerations.

The first is a series of job structure adjustments.

Because it is a privately owned company that is not publicly traded and does not have a CEO title, Grace is the president of Elite herself, this time at the head of the entire Elite Models Management agency, and oversees all of the modeling giant's subsidiaries around the world.

Elite also previously had a board of directors, with Simon's permission, and Grace announced the dissolution of the department on the spot, and management would only report directly to Apollo Management, which held an absolute majority stake in the company.

In fact, it is only responsible to Simon alone.

The main reason for holding this part of the shares through Apollo Management is to avoid conflicts of interest.

In fact, all walks of life in the United States have laws to avoid conflicts of interest.

From the Ethics Reform Act for government employees, to the Industrial Relations Act for companies, to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct that specifically limit certain fields, such as the lawyer's profession, legal restrictions are being carried out to prevent professional entities from representing the interests of both parties at the same time and in practice favoring one party to the detriment of the other.

Hollywood talent agencies are not directly involved in the production business, which is restricted by the relevant federal and California conflict of interest regulations.

However, most of these laws have a significant degree of leeway in their implementation.

Just like the project packaging mechanism created by Michael Ovitz, it is actually a disguised bypass of the law that brokerage companies cannot get involved in the production business in order to obtain more profits.

The modeling agency industry is even more restrictive in terms of conflict of interest regulations.

It's like a golden retriever who has historically owned a modeling agency, a television production company, and is directly involved in the fashion field. In reality, all three areas are conflicting and can be bypassed, at least on the surface, by using a few business tactics such as hosting affiliation.

For Elite, Simon is the same strategy.

personally took charge of Elite and announced the dissolution of the board of directors, Grace unceremoniously removed the president of Elite America, who was once John Casablanca's confidant, and replaced it with an executive who was usually good friends with her. At the same time, the head of the Elite advertising planning department, which had been promoted before the clash with Casablanca, was appointed on the spot, and this department was fine-tuned and renamed the business planning department.

What seems like a one-word change means that this department will not only cover advertising planning, but also event planning such as the model contest that Elite has been holding in recent years.

This is actually a disguised confiscation of power.

The right to hold the World Elite Model Contest, which was very important to Elite before, is directly in your hands.

At the same time, in addition to advertising, competitions and other fields, this department will also be involved in TV production, fashion event planning and other fields in the future, Grace initially just wanted to start in the advertising business, now that she is in charge, of course, she can do it on her own.

This is actually a parody of IMG (International Management Group), another giant in the talent agency industry.

IMG, which has the agency rights of sports celebrities such as Tiger Woods, is mainly focused on the sports field, and has also begun to get involved in the modeling agency industry in recent years, mainly acting for high-end customers, so the scale of related aspects is far less than that of Elite. However, compared to Elite's empty scale and single business and unenterprising state, IMG has been trying to break through the core business of its talent agency over the years, and has now expanded its brand to planning consulting, sports training, TV production and other aspects.

Because of the great success of this diversified operation strategy, IMG not only got rid of the dependence on the talent agency business, but also made more big names rely on IMG's resource channels, and at the same time created a huge scale of IMG far beyond Elite.

Most importantly, IMG has also gained a voice in the field of sports.

It's like Hollywood's CAA.

If it weren't for Simon's big butterfly, Michael Ovitz would have been the number one person on Hollywood's power list for the past few years.

As long as Elite's diversification strategy can be successful, the model agency giant will also be able to gain a stronger voice in the fashion field, instead of being the lowest end of the fashion industry chain at this stage, in order to win more opportunities for its customers, it has to find ways to win over all aspects.

After arranging these things, Grace asked Elite's legal department to start redrafting the contract, transferring a series of modeling contracts that had been held directly by John Casablanca to her personal name.

In fact, Grace would prefer to be able to implement the CAA model.

It's just not the right thing to do at this stage.

Because CAA's cross-agency model is essentially a kind of decentralization, it prevents any one broker from leaving with a large number of top clients.

For this bloated and inefficient old model agency that has accumulated many years of ills, strong centralization is the most important prerequisite for change, otherwise, any reform measures may be violated by all kinds of yang and yin because of the lack of strong skills at the helm, and the result is that nothing can be changed

At 12 o'clock, the meeting was adjourned, Grace came upstairs, knocked on her office door, and the vigorous and resolute behavior just now disappeared, and saw the three Cindy girls in the room who were talking and laughing around Simon, just nodded and said to the man: "Simon, it's already noon, can I invite you to lunch?"

Women are naturally good at disguise.

Simon smiled and nodded cooperatively, got up and said, "Okay." ”

The three girls actually wanted to be together, but they felt Grace's faint gaze, and they all subconsciously gave up this idea, and the woman's sixth sense was also very sensitive, and Karen Mulder, who was swept by Grace's gaze, was even a little weak again because of her weak heart, and wanted to take the opportunity to say a few words, until Simon and Grace left, they couldn't ease up.

The two left the building where the Elite headquarters was located and came to the underground parking lot to get into Simon's car, Grace suddenly lost her strong woman demeanor just now, and couldn't help but lean over and put her arms around Simon, and asked curiously: "What's going on with Karen?"

Simon felt Grace's emotion, so he simply took the woman over and put it on his lap, and said, "I was with Cindy for two days, and she broke in." ”

Grace snorted, "I'll fire her in the afternoon." ”

Simon wrapped his arms around the woman's waist: "However, she begged me to help intercede, and I agreed to her." ”

Grace raised her face and rubbed Simon's stubble chin, her breathing was a little more rapid, and she said softly, "Then let her go." ”

Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman on the lips, and smiled, "So unassertive?"

"You...... Well, that's my opinion. ”

There's still a lot of work to be done in the afternoon, but with Simon, Grace doesn't care about the concept of time at all, and it's a big deal to work extra today.

The two rushed to Simon's Upper East Side apartment, also off Fifth Avenue, and didn't sit down at the table until half past one in the afternoon.

The housekeeper Angel Davis personally brought lunch to the two, and when she noticed Grace's radiant face after being moisturized, she couldn't help but feel a little envious in her heart.

Grace looked at the back of the housekeeper as she left, and said to Simon, "I'll let Karen and Lima come over with you at night." ”

Simon slowly cut the black pepper sturgeon on the plate, shook his head and said, "No, you do your own thing, don't help me arrange this, it's not good for your reputation." ”

Grace snorted.

Actually, I don't care much.

In this circle, even Hollywood, and the music industry, in order to make the artists under their names high, many agents are doing something similar to pimping, doing everything possible to push customers into the arms of rich and powerful people.

This is true regardless of the circle.

Otherwise, with the world's huge population base, the most important thing is a good figure and a beautiful face, why can you be in a position, you can go to the big show, you can get luxury endorsements, and earn millions of dollars a year that others can't see in a lifetime, is it just that you walk well and your skin is more photogenic?

Joke.

The way the world is like this, and there is never anything that is without a reason.

Maybe after some things are exposed, some people will be indignant, and some people will be ruined. However, when the turmoil is gone, many things will still be repeated, repeated and repeated, outsiders still can't get used to it, insiders will still take it for granted, and of course there will be some outsiders who try to make themselves insiders and then enjoy this kind of naturalness together.

How do you say that?

Natural selection, the law of the jungle.

In fact, modern society is very friendly to the weak, at least it will not let the weak always feel the strict hierarchy that was easily killed and taken away by life thousands of years ago, as long as the weak do not try to change the class they are in, they can be safe and stable for a lifetime. However, the class pyramid has never disappeared, and once some unwilling weaklings want to climb up, the cruel law of the jungle will immediately come to you.

Break through, look down on all beings, can't break through, and break bones.

......

......

For this bloated and inefficient old model agency that has accumulated many years of ills, strong centralization is the most important prerequisite for change, otherwise, any reform measures may be violated by all kinds of yang and yin because of the lack of strong skills at the helm, and the result is that nothing can be changed

At 12 o'clock, the meeting was adjourned, Grace came upstairs, knocked on her office door, and the vigorous and resolute behavior just now disappeared, and saw the three Cindy girls in the room who were talking and laughing around Simon, just nodded and said to the man: "Simon, it's already noon, can I invite you to lunch?"

Women are naturally good at disguise.

Simon smiled and nodded cooperatively, got up and said, "Okay." ”

The three girls actually wanted to be together, but they felt Grace's faint gaze, and they all subconsciously gave up this idea, and the woman's sixth sense was also very sensitive, and Karen Mulder, who was swept by Grace's gaze, was even a little weak again because of her weak heart, and wanted to take the opportunity to say a few words, until Simon and Grace left, they couldn't ease up.

The two left the building where the Elite headquarters was located and came to the underground parking lot to get into Simon's car, Grace suddenly lost her strong woman demeanor just now, and couldn't help but lean over and put her arms around Simon, and asked curiously: "What's going on with Karen?"

Simon felt Grace's emotion, so he simply took the woman over and put it on his lap, and said, "I was with Cindy for two days, and she broke in." ”

Grace snorted, "I'll fire her in the afternoon." ”

Simon wrapped his arms around the woman's waist: "However, she begged me to help intercede, and I agreed to her." ”

Grace raised her face and rubbed Simon's stubble chin, her breathing was a little more rapid, and she said softly, "Then let her go." ”

Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman on the lips, and smiled, "So unassertive?"

"You...... Well, that's my opinion. ”

There's still a lot of work to be done in the afternoon, but with Simon, Grace doesn't care about the concept of time at all, and it's a big deal to work extra today.

The two rushed to Simon's Upper East Side apartment, also off Fifth Avenue, and didn't sit down at the table until half past one in the afternoon.

The housekeeper Angel Davis personally brought lunch to the two, and when she noticed Grace's radiant face after being moisturized, she couldn't help but feel a little envious in her heart.

Grace looked at the back of the housekeeper as she left, and said to Simon, "I'll let Karen and Lima come over with you at night." ”

Simon slowly cut the black pepper sturgeon on the plate, shook his head and said, "No, you do your own thing, don't help me arrange this, it's not good for your reputation." ”

Grace snorted.

Actually, I don't care much.

Otherwise, with the huge number of people in this world, the most important thing is to have a good figure and a beautiful face, why can you be in a position, you can go to the big show, you can take luxury endorsements, and earn millions of dollars a year that others can't see in a lifetime, is it just that you walk well and your skin is more photogenic?

Joke.

The way the world is like this, and there is never anything that is without a reason.

Maybe after some things are exposed, some people will be indignant, and some people will be ruined. However, when the turmoil is gone, many things will still be repeated, repeated and repeated, outsiders still can't get used to it, insiders will still take it for granted, and of course there will be some outsiders who try to make themselves insiders and then enjoy this kind of naturalness together.

In fact, modern society is very friendly to the weak, at least it will not let the weak always feel the strict hierarchy that was easily killed and taken away by life thousands of years ago, as long as the weak do not try to change the class they are in, they can be safe and stable for a lifetime. However, the class pyramid has never disappeared, and once some unwilling weaklings want to climb up, the cruel law of the jungle will immediately come to you.

Break through, look down on all beings, can't break through, and break bones.