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

Driving in the Maybach on the streets of Manhattan, Andy said to Ivana, who was reading the newspaper next to him.

"Hmm. Ivana hummed softly and flipped through the newspaper as she waited for Andy's next words.

"That's right, I'm going to recruit five flight attendants, and this time I'm back, on the plane, and even the coffee is brewed by myself. It's really inconvenient. ”

"Huh?"

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

Ivana groaned, then raised her eyebrows and the corners of her mouth turned up, and while unfolding the newspaper again, she looked at it in a fake way, and said lightly: "Yes, I will preside over the interview at the last level, and besides, flight attendants are just a very simple profession, and they don't need too many special skills at all, and it doesn't mean that you can't do it when you're older... ”

The corners of Andy's mouth twitched unnaturally a few times, and sure enough, this shrewd woman was really going to get a group of empty mothers to be sent on the plane, but Andy, who had been expected for a long time, naturally would not easily surrender to his quasi-housekeeper.

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

Hearing Andy's brain proposal, Ivana, who was still a little tired and helpless, also had a bright eye, although she admitted that Andy's idea was very good, and becoming a flight attendant on Andy Smith's private jet would also be very attractive, with an annual salary of $200,000, almost 4 times the annual salary of flight attendants on all airlines, this show may be successful, but this undoubtedly gave her a feeling of annoyance that her own man screened beautiful women around the world to serve him.

looked at Andy with a little sharpness, and the red also pouted slightly, looking not very happy.

"I want you to be the chief judge, we can even contact a local tyrant like Abu, a wealthy man or company who intends to add flight attendants to his private jet, we can all contact it, the selection program of the flight attendant is still blank, I think there is a very large audience market.

And whether it's etiquette, vision, fashion sensitivity, etc., you are the most suitable judge as the main judge, and we can implant the Ivana brand into the whole show, what do you think?"

Andy originally just had such an idea to dispel Ivana's jealousy, but as he spoke, he realized that he might not have made a head, and Ivana also jumped out of the previous little depression quickly, ruling out the careful thinking that his man might find benefits for himself, this idea is indeed a good idea.

"We can make this show a brand, the first season is to recruit our private jets, if the broadcast effect is good, I think someone will come to the door next season, and at the same time to find flight attendants for private jets, you can also use this to promote and increase your own fame, I think there will be many rich people who are willing to spend this money to keep this show going!" Andy reached out and pinched Ivana's chin with some smugness, raised his eyebrows and smiled evilly.

"You're really... Ivana shook her head a little crying and laughing, but this idea is a very good idea, some rich people don't mind spending millions to get a chance to be in the limelight on TV, like her own dad, ahem.

On the contrary, the little thing I was worried about before has become less worried, this kind of thing can't be prevented at all, and if this show really wants to start, it will also lose the original intention of recruitment to a large extent, and in the end it may even become a reality show, a private jet flight attendant with an annual salary of 200,000 US dollars, and in the end, it may not let some girls who feel that they are famous put it in their eyes, so it will become the focus of the topic again.

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

"I just had this idea, and I'll tell it to Plepler for a while, and let the TV directors think about it, but now the recruitment of flight attendants seems to have turned into a reality show, tsk, I don't know what will happen in the end. ”

"Giggles, have you thought of it too? After becoming famous, the mentality is different, and you may not be able to look at the job with an annual salary of 200,000 yuan, but this is interesting, isn't it?" Ivana said with a smile at the corners of her mouth.

"Don't wait until the last flight attendant can't recruit it, it's a big joke!" Andy twitched the corners of his mouth a few times and smiled bitterly.

"Gurgle... It doesn't have to be impossible. ”

Seeing Ivana walk into the CP building, Andy raised the car window, took out the phone, called Pleple, and told him about the idea of the flight attendant recruitment reality show mentioned earlier, and then threw the matter to Pleple, asking him to gather the variety show directors to improve.

Andy himself, on the other hand, quickly put the matter behind him, and all he needed was to see five beautiful flight attendants boarding his private jet at the end and providing him with services.

In the Gaia corporate conference room, Andy sat in the main seat, listening to his think tank's subordinates report to him.

"GE's CEO, Jeff Immelt, is a typical professional manager, even a little too professional, his style is to like to "report good news and not bad news", he doesn't like to hear bad news, and he doesn't like to deliver bad news.

In the seven years since he took office, GE's capital has shrunk dramatically. In order to maintain performance growth, he continued to buy, buy, buy, and buy, spending $5.5 billion to buy Vivendi Entertainment and $9.5 billion to buy a British medical imaging company...

The reason why GE suffered heavy losses in this subprime mortgage crisis was that Immelt allocated a large amount of money to the R&D department, and in order to increase short-term profits, he could only ask for financial results.

GE went from a manufacturing-focused company to a diversified conglomerate with no clear goals or missions other than short-term profits. It worked very well for a while, long enough to make him a hero and a role model in the eyes of executives who enjoyed the dramatic change.

The bubble burst, short-term thinking began to show its limits, and that strategy brought to the surface the huge risks facing GE.

After this devastation, we suspect that GE will return to the old GM path in the coming years, divesting most of GE's financial and real estate assets and mismatched businesses, allowing the company to refocus on its former core business of manufacturing for the aerospace, energy and medical markets. ”

"The value of any model is not in short-term success, but in long-term viability. After listening to the report of his subordinates, Andy said with emotion that he also had a clear understanding of the limited thinking and vision of these professional managers who only focus on immediate profits and keep their thrones.

This kind of professional manager is a very deadly poison for large enterprises that want to develop for a long time, with a lesson from the past, it is undoubtedly very timely for Andy who wants to integrate his assets, he needs to choose his right-hand man more carefully, and those who can make quick money may not be the most suitable person.

"What about NBCUniversal?" Andy listened to the above report, and 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 sit firmly on the throne is definitely very easy to deal with.

"Friends," which ended in 2004, was a major watershed moment for NBC, and it hasn't been able to find the right program to match its "must-see TV" claims.

And other TV networks began to challenge NBC to Thursday night slots. They arranged the most powerful shows to compete for the time slot, and in the end, NBC's fortress was easily broken.

The program crisis caused by the departure of "Friends" has not been alleviated to this day. In the 2006-2007 season, NBC was last among the four major television networks, including FOX, with 8.9 million viewers, down 9% year-over-year. NBC's annual revenue fell to $1.9 billion from $2.9 billion in 2004.

In the new season of 2007-2008, NBC launched only four new TV series and one game show, the fewest of the four TV networks. According to the data we got from Nielsen, an authoritative American viewing computing company, NBC's ratings performance will remain the weakest in the new season.

By this time, the monopoly of television networks had long since been broken, and its overall audience was losing at an average rate of 10% per year. ”

"It seems that the group's strengths and resources can't solve the lack of NBC's core programming products, and maybe they will be very happy for me to be their new boss. Andy raised his eyebrows a little sarcastically, and said a little proudly.

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but chuckle, of course, they were very convinced of their boss's ability, not to mention anything else, looking at the rapid development of AMC TV now is enough to explain everything.