After meeting Tim Cook, John then met the next Administrator, this time the Administrator standing in front of him was an outsider and a woman.

"Lady Meg Whitman!"

John looked at the middle-aged woman in front of him and said solemnly.

"On behalf of the Group, I formally hire you as Vice President of IBM Group and President of the Mobile Phone Manufacturing Division. I hope you can make new achievements in the new environment. John said as he handed the letter of appointment to him. Meg Whitman took the letter of appointment with both hands, looked at the contents on it, and felt a little apprehensive.

John saw that she was a little nervous, and after pressing her hand to sit down, he made a small joke with a smile on his face to lighten the mood. "Do you think I'll call you President Meg Whitman or sister?"

Meg Whitman and John are classmates at Harvard University, both of them are economics, but Meg Whitman is many levels higher than John, so it is also right for John to call him Meg Whitman.

And Meg Whitman was a little overwhelmed when she heard John's joke. "Well, Mr. Morgan......! Just call me Meg. ”

"Well, I'll call you Meg and you call me JK, no need to call me Mr. Morgan. John smiled.

"Okay, Mr. JK. Meg Whitman nodded.

John was helpless, what is the difference between Mr. Morgan and Mr. JK? But in the end, he gave up on the treatment of Meg Whitman, whose identity was destined to be impossible to talk to like ordinary people, so he pulled the topic back to work. "Meg, the successor president of the mobile phone department, is there any difficulty on your side?"

"Hmm. Meg Whitman thought for a moment and voiced her worries. "Mr. JK, I don't understand technology, I don't understand mobile phones, I'm afraid I can't do it well. And at my age, is it too young to be the vice president of IBM, the president of the mobile phone department? ”

Meg Whitman is most worried about her lack of qualifications, although she has also been the president of several companies before, but those are small companies, how can the president of a small company be the same as the president of the world's top 500, so she is very worried that she does not have such prestige to lead the IT giant, and she is also worried that the company's stock price will fall because of the outside world's suspicion of her.

"There are enough tech-savvy people at IBM, you just need to be yourself," John tried to look kind, fearing that being too serious would make the young vice president even more nervous.

He understands Meg Whitman's worries, and at the age of 35, he became the vice president of the world's top 500 companies and IT giants. So John had to cheer up the vice president at this time.

"Do you know why I chose you?" asked John.

Meg Whitman shook her head, she also wanted to know about the question.

"After my investigation of you, I found that you are pragmatic, low-key, decisive, humble, shameless, detail-oriented, and the pursuit of perfection, these qualities are exactly what the IBM mobile phone department needs, so you only need to do your best, the knowledge learned in school, the experience accumulated in the society is used in the management of the mobile phone department, as for the technical problems, then leave it to the technician to solve. ”

IBM's mobile phone department needed a visionary, perfectionist, demanding, and assertive, and persistent person to lead, but John thought about it for a while and found that the most suitable person for this position was now filming cartoons in California, and it was impossible for John to get this person to IBM, so in the end John had to settle for the second best thing and chose the pragmatic, decisive, perfectionist, and detail-oriented Meg Whitman.

Although such a person lacks the domineering spirit of arbitrariness, and sometimes may give in on certain things, such a person is a good thing for a new department, she can unite the team well through her pragmatic, low-key and humble qualities, gather the strength of everyone to complete some impossible tasks, and at the same time can resolve some internal pressure and bring a sense of belonging to employees.

Besides, the mobile phone department has John staring at, and he has the domineering that Meg Whitman doesn't have, so it is appropriate to put Meg Whitman in this position.

Meg Whitman, who was on the side, heard John say this, and the tension in his heart subsided slightly, but there were still some worries.

And John, who was on the side, saw that his words had an effect, and immediately took advantage of the victory to pursue. "I heard you're old friends with Starbucks' Howard Schultz?"

"Yes, I have been friends with him for many years. Meg Whitman nodded and asked. "You know him?"

"Why, didn't he tell you that I invested in him when he was unknown?" John smiled. "In addition to him, there is Qualcomm, and now the vice president of Morgan Stanley, I invested in them when they were unknown, and it turns out that I have a good vision, so you have to believe in yourself, and you have to have my vision. ”

John said very confidently, of course, he also has the strength of self-confidence, with the memory of a lifetime, if this kind of thing will be wrong, then just buy a piece of tofu and die, willing to live and waste air.

However, I am still a little worried about my age, afraid that I will not be able to control the giant ship of IBM, and I am afraid that the company's market value will plummet due to doubts from the outside world. This is what Meg Whitman worries the most, IBM is notoriously bureaucratic problems, whether she can suppress a group of old fritters with background at her age, this is a question, and at the same time, the outside world will question her ability, and the stock market will definitely fall then.

"Don't worry, just let it go. ”

John looked solemnly at Meg Whitman. "Always remember that you are the president I chose, you are not one, standing behind you is the IBM Group, it is the Morgan family, it is me JK Morgan, understand?"

"Yes. ”

Hearing John's words, Meg Whitman nodded emphatically, John's trust swept away the last bit of worry in her heart, and at this moment she finally regained that confident self. At the same time, she was grateful for John's trust.

"Mr. JK, I will definitely live up to your trust. For the first time in Meg Whitman's life, she made a promise that wasn't about money or salary.

Sometimes money is important, but trust and recognition are harder to come by and more cherished than money.

After regaining confidence for Meg Whitman, John took out a document from a drawer and handed it to Meg Whitman, showing the styles of two phones from IBM's mobile phone division, as well as functional data.

For someone who understands the future, making a hot phone is a particularly easy task, as simple as eating and drinking.

So Nokia's 5110, the first mobile phone in history to sell more than 100 million, became IBM's first mobile phone. Motorola's classic starTAC becomes IBM's second phone.

For these two mobile phones, John has not changed the appearance or function, it is basically the original, but he will not be so stupid as to copy the name, so the Nokia 5110 in this life has a new name, called Simon-1. Motorola's starTAC is called glory-1.

Two mobile phones, of which the Simon series focuses on the mid-range market, and the Glory series focuses on the high-end market.