When Li Xiaole stepped into the door of Apple's headquarters after a long absence, he quickly felt that the atmosphere was a little different, and it seemed that many people were avoiding his eyes, and they didn't see him nodding and saying hello before.

Zeng Zhiwei and Cheng Long are both old rivers and lakes, and they also glanced at each other and muttered in their hearts...... It seems that this shareholder meeting should not have gone as smoothly as expected, after all, they as a Chinese team suddenly want to develop a new project, which does sound ridiculous.

"Lee, you're finally here." At this time, Li Xiaole saw the figure that had not been seen for a long time, and Jonathan, who had a serious face, came over and hugged him, and then introduced each other with Cheng Long and Zeng Zhiwei.

"What's wrong Jonathan, why do I feel something is wrong? How it seems that everyone doesn't welcome me. Li Xiaole asked a little strangely.

"It's not that they don't welcome you, but they're nervous." Jonathan's face sank and said, "This quarter's shareholders' meeting may decide the company's top management...... You know Steve hasn't been in good health lately...... There are always people who take advantage of this opportunity to attack him. ”

"Well, I see, Steve's problem is half because I was asked by the board of directors for mobilizing the company's resources." Li Xiaole understood this, and sighed helplessly.

Almost everyone who uses a mobile phone on this planet knows that in the past two years, the release of two generations of IPhone has made Apple, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, prosperous, and its market value has quadrupled, and the entire company is targeting their biggest competitor Microsoft, but few people understand that Apple has not been quiet in the past two years.

Although the cooperation between Jobs and Li Xiaole, the two design geniuses, has benefited the entire company, but like Steve Jobs's arrogant and domineering style, Li Xiaole, the chief design director, has never come to Apple to report, but is only busy with their directing career, and even uses the company's development and design department to spend a lot of money on the research and development of movie 3D technology, which makes the members of Apple's board of directors very angry, and they even slapped the table on the board of directors several times to warn Jobs:

"You can only give Li Xiaole two ways, either give us a job or be his director, you can't let a design director have such a privilege."

But Jobs, who has always been strong, despised them mercilessly, and said to all: "Without Li Xiaole, there would be no IPhone, even if he doesn't report to Apple, he is also our most important leader, I have no objection to his work style, as long as he can create value~ Is there a lack of honest people in our company?" ”

Jobs, who is known as the "Emperor of France" within the board of directors, is in charge, although Li Xiaole, the nominal technical director, has no discipline at all, but he still enjoys all the privileges of Apple, and as long as he speaks at any time, he can call on various departments of Apple at any time.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Xiaole was able to make the opening ceremony so successful during the Olympic Games, for the opening ceremony, he not only transferred various equipment from Apple, but also mobilized more than 100 company employees, but although these moves were approved by Jobs, they were indeed very eye-catching in the eyes of the board of directors.

Although everyone is counting on people like Jobs and him to turn the tide in the company's crisis moment, once the company's business is on track, the old foxes on the board of directors naturally hope that a reliable and honest person will keep this huge mess, and unrestrained elements like Jobs and Li Xiaole now seem to be a negative factor that undermines stability.

Li Xiaole was also mentally prepared to understand this, and when Jonathan was chatting, he found that the directors of various other departments, regardless of men, women and children, were all gathered at the door on the other side and were standing, as if someone was waiting at the door.

"Who are they waiting for?" Li Xiaole pursed his lips and asked Jonathan, what do he think is the doorway.

"Who else is not the new boss they think they are?" Jonathan's face was gloomy, and there was a look of disdain and helplessness in his eyes.

At this time, I heard a person shouting: "Mr. Cook is here~~" A group of heads of various departments of Apple who were chatting immediately hugged over, Li Xiaole followed their gaze, and saw a tall and thin man with a feminine temperament and an old man with gray hair walking in from the door.

"Manager Cook has been waiting for you for a long time." "Director York, why are you only here now~" A large circle of people smiled around the question mark, the white-haired, slightly chubby old man with eyes shook hands and hugged everyone, and said with a smile: "Sorry, sorry, it's a little late for some traffic jams~~"

Li Xiaole recognized that the tall, thin and feminine man was the future famous new CEO of Apple, Tim Cook, but he had never seen the white and fat old man, so he couldn't help but ask Jonathan next to him: "Who is that person." ”

"He's Jerry York, the CFO of Chrysler and IBM, and he's the most powerful person on our board right now." Jonathan said, and couldn't help but scold softly shamelessly: "It's this old guy who has been pushing Cook to be the CEO after Steve's health problems...... It is said that it is for the long-term interests of the company...... In fact, it is to seize power. ”

Li Xiaole also saw it clearly on the side, now that Apple's career is maturing, the board of directors hopes to support a person with a more introverted personality and a healthy health, as the successor of Jobs, of course, in Li Xiaole's view, they are very wise to do so, after all, the company's business development is more and more stable first, look at Motorola and Nokia's two major mobile phones are weakening after the IPhone, Apple's board of directors naturally does not think that it can sit back and relax now.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Jobs' illness affects his work status, otherwise the board of directors would like this arrogant genius to continue to lead the company for 20 years.

At this time, while the group of people were laughing, the gray-haired Jobs had already walked in through the door at the other end, and the heads of various departments immediately lowered their heads and were silent.

"Lee~~! You're finally back! Jobs walked directly to Li Xiaole and gave Li Xiaole a big hug with a laugh.

While Li Xiaole greeted and hugged his old friend, he was shocked in his heart, he felt that the big man who used to be a big design genius in an invulnerable suit was now as skinny as an old man who was about to die. The shriveled body was heartbreaking.

"Steve, what's the ...... of your illness" Li Xiaole had a sour nose and looked at his best friend with red eyes, he knew that Jobs was continuing to be treated, but he didn't expect his illness to relapse so seriously, it must be the news that Apple blocked everything in order to stabilize the stock price...... But he didn't expect Jobs to hide it from him...... It's no wonder the board of directors is so eager to change course......

Li Xiaole sighed in his heart, he has obviously changed history, why did Jobs's illness recur? Is there something that really can't be changed......

"Ha~~ Li, don't cry with a sad face, it's not as serious as you think, my chemotherapy is almost over, the cancer cells have been controlled, it just looks worse, but I will recover." Jobs tried to squeeze out a smile, but everyone clearly sensed that he was weak.

When Jerry York and Cook saw Jobs appear, they didn't seem to be cold, but just waved their hands and let everyone follow them to the elevator first.

After Li Xiaole introduced Zeng Zhiwei and Cheng Long to Jobs, Jobs also smiled and hugged Li Xiaole's shoulders: "Let's go, let's go in too, let me enjoy your new gadgets, I heard Jonathan say, that thing is very, very interesting, you have to talk to me ~~~" Jobs and his party chatted while getting on the elevator, and then walked into the conference room.

The group entered the huge conference room and saw 50 directors sitting in the audience, led by a noble white lady in her 60s, Li Xiaole knew her, it seems that the current president of the board of directors, Kelly Ya'an, since several of the largest former directors sold their shares and left Apple, this Polish-born lady has been the anchor of the board.

Li Xiaole was surprised to find that it was not Jobs who presided over the meeting, but the fat man Jerry York, and after nodding and greeting the members of the board of directors, he immediately made a quiet gesture and said, "You can start." ”

The secretary assistant door next to him hurriedly put the prepared documents on the desk of the department head, Li Xiaole saw from this action that it seemed that Jobs had not presided over the meeting for a while due to physical reasons...... That is, he has been half-emptied.

Jerry York smiled on his fat face and squinted at the crowd: "It's still the process of the previous quarterly meeting, each development department can report its own projects to be developed, and we will discuss with the gentlemen and ladies of the board of directors to decide what can be carried out and which should be suspended, and some important departments will also discuss the adjustment of personnel this time." ”

Last quarter, Cook took over the management of the company after he was hospitalized for medical reasons due to Steve's health. Prior to Steve's return to the company, he had raised Apple's stock price by about 70 percent, and we had a year-over-year growth of 54.7, more than double that of Microsoft, and we were more competitive with our products and our market share continued to increase. ”

Although they know that Jerry York is making sycophants, in front of the board of directors, everyone still has to look solemn, after all, everyone present, including legendary figures like Steve Jobs, is just a part-time job, and their real bosses are the members of these boards, of course, including Jerry York himself.