"When are you going to go back, your wife almost cried when I left."

Visited the Geographical Society of America and provided a grant for the upcoming "First National Geography Knowledge Contest for Middle School Students", and the task of this trip to the United States was basically completed.

As for whether BNB News can cooperate smoothly with National Geographic, it is a matter for Wissen, the president of BNB News (USA). However, judging from the attitude of the Geographical Society and the National Geographic Magazine, the possibility of success is relatively high, because no one has ever thought of setting up a high-level popular science channel before.

Tomorrow is going to Europe, originally planned to have a good rest in the hotel, Dr. Chen Wushou had to do his "landlord friendship", and even moved his old partner Dr. Cai Yangzhi, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, to the appointment.

Women like to talk about family shortcomings, as soon as she got in the car, she talked about Xia Yao, the apricot core eyes were wide, and the black luster like watermelon seeds was reflected in the light of the setting sun.

A trace of tenderness flashed in his dark eyes, and he said with a smile: "I just called in the morning, and she told me to work with peace of mind and not to be in a hurry, how can you say it so seriously?" ”

"Of course I said so on the phone, I don't know if a woman's heart is a needle?" Jiang Meimei raised her eyebrows slightly, showing a little dissatisfaction.

His wife was pregnant, he was not by her side, and he was also very guilty, so he smiled helplessly and wryly: "Isn't there no way, you can't let her run around with me with a big belly, right?" ”

"If you have something to do, go back early when you're done."

I don't know when it started. She also considers herself the eldest sister like Lin Huixian and Shen Xinru, and she is the first and only one among the former colleagues in the second phase of the electrical division, and even her tone is so old-fashioned.

He looked at a few Asians on the golf course outside the car and quipped, "Dr. Chen, Director Jiang is new to the city, and he must be very lonely." I had time to introduce a few friends, and Stanford went to Berkeley if it wasn't suitable. Try to make the most of those four months. ”

Chen Wushou didn't have time to speak. Jiang Meimei smiled and said, "Boss Zhang, are you asking Dr. Chen to help me introduce friends, or are you asking him to help me introduce people?" ”

"The group and the laboratory are over 30 years old, and you and Song Jia are the leftover women, and you can start a business only when you start a family. Can I not rush as a boss? ”

Chen Wushou helped his glasses. In a stiff Mandarin, he echoed: "What Zhang Gong said is extremely true. Director Jiang, you can't put it off any longer. Today, I have a lot of guests, including several young professors from the mainland. I'll introduce you later. ”

The colleagues around him have started families one after another, and even Xie Jingwen, the "old difficulty", plans to travel to the Caribbean in a few months to get married. Her father and mother were so anxious that she didn't dare to go back to her new home in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region when she was working in Hong Kong.

Jiang Meimei never thought of being single forever, and there was no problem with her sexual orientation, but she never met a like-minded person, so she unknowingly dragged it to this day, so she asked in a ghostly manner: "Is there a Chinese professor at Stanford?" ”

After asking, she suddenly realized that all the men in the car were men, and told her girlfriends such as Xie Jingwen, Shen Xinru, Lin Huixian and Xia Yao that it didn't matter, and it was too embarrassing to talk about it with a group of big men. Suddenly, that smile was overflowing with the shyness of proper weight.

"Absolutely."

He laughed and said, "As far as I know, the first Chinese professor at Stanford is surnamed Zhu, and he is now the head of the physics department. In addition, in addition to professors, there are visiting professors, associate professors, assistant professors and even international students. ”

Chen Wushou suddenly remembered someone, turned around and smiled: "Director Jiang, there is really a suitable person in our department, surnamed Shen, graduated from FD University, came to Stanford for a doctorate in 89 years, and now stays in the school to teach, about the same age as you, looks like a talent, and is as single as you." ”

The statutes of Stanford University's physics department are and will be well-known.

There are not many Chinese-American physicists at Stanford University, except for the current head of the Department of Physics, the future member of the National Academy of Sciences, the future Nobel Laureate in Physics and the future Secretary of Energy of the United States, there is a chief scientist of the SLAC (National Accelerator Laboratory), and the surname is Shen.

He asked knowingly, "Dr. Chen, which direction do you say this Dr. Shen is mainly studying?" ”

"Room-temperature superconductivity, in the same direction as Director Obote, should be here at this time."

Jiang Meimei was made to laugh, and couldn't help asking, "Dr. Chen, how many people did you invite today?" ”

Chen Wushou was obviously not very good at entertaining, so he said with his fingers and eyebrows: "Mainly a few professors and some graduate students in our department, some friends of my wife, and three colleagues and some students of Lao Cai, there are almost more than 30 people." ”

"So many people?"

"Well, they all know Zhang Gong, and read Zhang Gong's papers like the Bible, so of course I want to introduce them to this opportunity."

Jiang Meimei was completely convinced, turned around and teased: "Boss Zhang, it's still too late to prepare the speech." ”

"I don't need to prepare a speech, but I want to have another guest." It is not easy for a Chinese to be a visiting professor at Stanford University, and the charter can understand Chen Wushou's current mood. Hong Kong NB Laboratory is his "maiden family", and as a "maiden family", of course, he has to support him.

Looking at his troubled look, Chen Wushou nodded again and again: "No problem, the garden is big enough, it's no problem to invite a few more." ”

"Then you're welcome," said the charter with a smile, and immediately took the eldest brother from Jan-Joseph's hand, and quickly dialed Prince Metbu's phone.

The big boss of "Diamond Capital" is in the limelight, and he has set up a mansion worth tens of millions of dollars next to a small airport so that he can travel by private jet. Buy two cars each, including the 8-meter-tall Lincoln, the latest presidential Cadillac Fretwood, and the rare Bugatti EB110 supersport sports car. He is more well-known in Silicon Valley than the new President Clinton.

The royals, noble, young and promising, have integrated into California's high society in just over a month, becoming the object of luxury goods suppliers, and the guests of governors, speakers, mayors, entrepreneurs and bankers.

As the second largest shareholder of BNB News Network and NB Airlines, his relationship with the charter is not a secret, Jiang Meimei reacted, and couldn't help but laugh: "What 'diamond capital'." I knew you were in this group. ”

There were no outsiders in the car. The charter simply said frankly: "What a bunch, it's so ugly to say." Diamond Capital does have my own funds, but only part of it. If you are interested, you can also entrust His Royal Highness the Prince to help you manage your finances. ”

Jiang Meimei didn't dare to easily hand over her savings to an Arabian prince who spent a lot of money. Curiously asked, "You tell me first." How much do you have a stake in Diamond Capital? ”

The charter shook his head and smiled: "Director Jiang." Would you like to have time to learn a little bit about finance? The reason why 'Diamond Capital' is registered in the British Virgin Islands is that it does not want outsiders to know the shareholding structure. Not only should the shareholding structure be kept confidential, but the information of the customers who entrusted His Royal Highness the Prince with investment cannot be disclosed. ”

Jiang Meimei smiled secretly: "Since you want to keep it secret." Then don't say it, but I, a small family, don't dare to compare with you, squander like him, who dares to invest money in him! ”

The charter smiled and said meaningfully: "How can you be well-known without squandering, and how can you start a business without visibility?" ”

Chen Wushou said: "The prince's popularity is indeed very high, and Californians seem to have a very high opinion of him. ”

"yes, he's more popular in the U.S. than we are."

After a pause, he continued: "First, the status is noble, second, the United States and Saudi Arabia are allies, and more importantly, there is a successful Prince Alwaleed in front of him, and people will naturally associate the two together, which is very beneficial to the development of venture capital business." As for whether he is squandering, from which point of view. For us ordinary people, he is a little more generous, but compared to his uncles and brothers, he is already very frugal. ”

Jiang Meimei corrected word by word: "We don't include you in this, you are not an ordinary person." ”

"Less, what is the difference between me and you?"

Except for a little more money, it is really no different, Jiang Meimei changed her words: "Zhang Gong, when I came, I heard that the group is going to adjust again, what is going on?" ”

"Adjustments again?" Even Chen Wushou felt incredible, revealing a surprised expression.

"There's such a thing."

The charter said slowly, "Do you know that I am the first Chinese to win the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom?" I am the second, the one in front of me is very famous, and his career is also very successful, his personal assets were as high as 2 billion US dollars, and he is the richest Chinese in the world, but the hero is late, and last fall, his company went bankrupt and protected. ”

Jiang Meimei was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "Wang An! ”

The charter nodded slightly, and continued: The decline of Wang An's company has a lot to do with not keeping up with the PC era, and at the same time, there are also big problems with internal management, in the words of a famous Japanese entrepreneur, it suffers from the 'big company disease'. After NB Electrician went public, the headquarters took a series of cooling measures to prevent everyone, including me, from being fluttering.

With the increasing number of group businesses, we are facing the same problem with the successful listing of NB Electric Package and NB Aviation. I always feel like I'm a big group, a big company, and I feel like I'm amazing. In fact, in Hong Kong, we say that we are a high-tech company, dare we say in the United States? Therefore, the headquarters of the American Company only dared to be located in a small town in New Jersey, and did not dare to move here easily. ”

Compared with real large groups and large companies, NB Electric does not have many products and equipment with real high-tech content.

"NB Future Window" flat picture tube color TV and visual flat computer monitor can only be regarded as innovation, "Deep Eyes-100" and "Deep Eyes-200" medical CT machines are only following in the footsteps of others, at most there is a little breakthrough in the tomography imaging system, and people can easily catch up, there is really no sense of superiority at all.

Looking at Jiang Meimei and Chen Wushou's face-to-face, the charter continued: "What does a good enterprise look like? I summed it up, that is, can you make it clear about your company in one sentence, and whether there are terminal products on sale. What does the old general manager do after work? If you can answer these three questions clearly, you will probably have a number in mind. ”

Chen Wushou is neither a researcher at the NB laboratory nor an electrical staff member at NB, so it is normal that he cannot answer these three questions.

Jiang Meimei is different, she has a position in the group's technical department, and she gets the salary of NB Electric, which belongs to the people of NB Electric. However, she found that she could only seem to answer the second question.

"A good company should make it clear in one sentence so that others can understand it at a glance. For example, what does your own company do? It is to make food. It's still garment-making, and I finished it in one sentence, not only the boss himself can speak clearly in one sentence, but also no matter which level of employee he asks. Everyone is on the same page. In all likelihood. Other than that. It's not enough to finish a sentence yourself! It also depends on whether what others, especially laymen, ordinary people say about you, is consistent with your own statement. ”

Charter stared into her eyes. He continued seductively: "For example, the domestic one who made the plane, not only did he not explain clearly what Nande did in a hundred sentences, but also a hundred people still didn't know what he was doing after listening to his words and watching his deeds.

Looking at those stable and mature enterprises, the head of the company only needs one sentence at any time, at most a few words, to explain himself. The layman doesn't need to put much effort into it, and he will understand what they are doing as soon as he hears it. For example, Coca-Cole, Gillette, and McDonald's are so simple that we can understand them at a glance.

Of all things in the world, greatness is just a kind of simplicity, and only truth is not afraid of simplicity. Complex things are especially easy to look at, but behind the good looks are often absurdities and pitfalls. When a business grows to the point where people start to understand it, it is about to collapse like a building.

Most of the biggest mistakes of some big American companies like Wang An were made at the best of times. We're having a good time now, and it's the best time. However, the lessons of the past are there, and the more this time, the more you can't make mistakes, because once you make a mistake, it will be difficult to return, and you can't go back in the future. ”

There are more and more businesses, how can you say it clearly in one sentence? But Jiang Meimei is no longer entangled in this problem, but suddenly found that the group really exists the "disease" he said. However, Chen Wushou wanted to know how to describe it in one sentence, and stared at the charter with anticipation.

"NB Electric is a global company that provides technology and services to create a better life through a wide range of technologies and services, from power generation and transmission and distribution equipment to financial services, from medical imaging and television programs to consumer electronics."

One sentence was indeed summed up, and Chen Wushou nodded thoughtfully.

The charter took a deep breath and continued: "Dreams change the future, it's still our slogan. Electrification, automation and digitalization are where we are headed, and they will never waver. In addition, in order to completely calm down the top and bottom and for the sake of the future of NB Electric, the Board of Directors decided to change the name of the company, adjust the corporate structure, and reorganize the business of each branch. In short, except for the wife who remains the same, everything else must change. ”

Jiang Meimei blurted out: "Even the name has to be changed, it's not called NB Electric?" ”

"It's not that it's not called NB Electric, but it can't be called NB Electric Group anymore. CE Corporation, East Gate Corporation, NBB Corporation, Coca-Cola Company, Ford Company...... Which one is dozens or even hundreds of times bigger than us, is it called a group? So we want to change the name back and call it NB Electric Co., Ltd. as before, referred to as NB Electric Company. ”

"Group group, company company, well, it just sounds different, much more low-key."

As soon as her voice fell, Chen Wushou asked by inference: "Zhang Gong, is the NB Electronics Group also going to be changed to NB Electronics Company?" ”

The articles of association confirmed with a serious face: "Yes, as long as it is an entity controlled by NB Electric, all of them must change their names to companies." The Board of Directors of the Group was changed to the Board of Directors of the Company, and the number of outside directors was increased from 6 to 15. At the same time, a board of supervisors will be established, and my brother-in-law Liu Siwei will also resign as chairman. ”

Jiang Meimei asked eagerly: "Who is the chairman?" ”

The board of directors is not an administrative body, but a legislative committee, and there is no real subordinate relationship between the chairman and the directors. The directors and supervisors are not employees of the company, but the owners and arbitrators of the company, and these relationships have not been straightened out before, and the articles of association and Liu Siwei are determined to take the opportunity of this reshuffle of the president and vice president of the branch to solve these problems once and for all.

The future CEO must have power, and he cannot always be as hands-free as he is now.

Therefore, the chairman of NB Electric, like most American companies, is just an honorary position, just like the Queen of England, with an extremely honorable position, but never says anything weighty. Just a respected "living god" who is used to maintain the situation, and has no power other than to convene a board of directors.

To be precise, there is still a little power, that is, to carry out a "coup" to remove the CEO from office at the request of a majority of shareholders if he is too incompetent.

This is the last adjustment of the company's power structure, and the articles of association smirked: "I don't know who the members of the board of directors are elected." ”

Jiang Meimei was completely confused, and asked with a puzzled face: "You and Liu Dongzhen really don't plan to manage the company?" ”

"We've made too many mistakes to make again, and this is the last time. If I have any ideas and suggestions in the future, I will ask my representative, my second sister Zhang Lin, to put them on the board of directors, and I will no longer interfere in the internal affairs of the company, and even try not to go to the company as much as possible. ”

She asked again: "What about the resignation of Chairman Liu as chairman?" ”

Mr. Ding resigned as a director and vice president, and spun off the investment department from the company to form a venture capital company independent of NB Electric. In addition, the technical department was abolished and the compliance department was established...... The subsidiaries are not small, for example, BNB News will be split into American BNB, German BNB and Middle Eastern BNB, independent accounting, independent operation, no longer use the profits of Arabic channels to support German channels and Spanish channel people. ”

The charter took the leather bag from Jan Joseph's hand, took out a stack of documents from it, and said while looking at it: "In the future, there will be ten subsidiaries of NB Energy, NB Power Transmission and Distribution, NB Power, NB Electrician, NB Electronics, NB Medical, NB Bank, NB Process Control, NB Water Treatment and NB Technology, and the regional company will remain unchanged." (To be continued......)