(a)

Soyce's abandonment of CBC has become a bellwether for the capital market.

Other capital groups that also coveted CBC also saw my firm intention to merge and decided that something that even Soyce didn't want to get involved in must have extraordinary risks and high costs.

As a result, major capital groups have declined CBC's anti-merger financing requests and equity transfer requests.

CBC was abandoned by all the predators and was isolated in the face of my huge amount of money.

CBC's shareholders were divided, with some wavering in their stance and feeling that it would be less harmful in the long run to cooperate with my takeover.

After a heated debate, CBC's board of directors finally voted to negotiate a merger with me.

My lawyers and investment advisors advised on the terms of negotiation. The conditions were undoubtedly harsh on the original shareholders of CBC.

The core clause is to expel some of the founding shareholders of CBC from the board of directors, and only allow them to obtain the proceeds from the sale of equity, and are no longer allowed to participate in the specific operation of CBC.

The CBC board of directors and I had two rounds of tough and tenacious negotiations in three days.

I finally forced some of their founders to agree to sell their entire stake and exit CBC from then on.

I got my wish and got a 72% interest in CBC's equity.

The merger was quickly completed amid a wail from CBC Group.

I have full control of the CBC.

The first day for the new company to reopen after the merger is Monday.

I led my department to the headquarters building of CBC, completed the handover to the old board of directors, and took over the CBC Group.

I finally sat in its chairman's office.

(b)

The merger caused a small panic in the original CBC workforce.

It is expected that after the establishment of the new board of directors, there will be a round of personnel storms, and many executives and employees who do not meet the development direction of the new board of directors will be swept away.

For a while, there was a lot of discussion about the group, everyone was concerned about the changes in the senior management, speculating about the direction of future personnel reform, and also looking at the generous compensation of the executives who were swept away, as a reference standard for economic compensation after being laid off.

But, like Owen. People like Stone aren't worried. They are confident that they have an intricate and inseparable relationship with the group, and that they have a relationship with the group that is both a loss and a prosperous relationship, and that the group cannot dismiss anyone who dismisses them, and these core backbones cannot be dismissed.

Soon, the results of the personnel changes that everyone had been waiting for became apparent.

This result surprised everyone.

Because the first thing I did when I became chairman was to cleanly put Owen . Stone kicked out the CBC.

This decision of mine caused an uproar within the CBC Group.

From then on, I was often seen as a ruthless and tough woman in the mall.

I ignore Owen. Stone's deep affection for the CBC over the years and his outstanding contributions, despite the dissenting opinions of other directors, categorically exercised control of the majority shareholder and forcibly expelled him from the CBC.

Not only that, but the conditions I gave him to leave were unanimously commented as "very harsh".

Irving. Stone had never imagined that the blow would come so quickly and suddenly, and he had never imagined that the compensation paid by the new board of directors for sending him a roll would be so low that it did not match the value he thought he had.

He felt deeply insulted and hurt.

(c)

After the Board's decision to change personnel was announced, it supported Owen. The people at Stone have done a lot of work for me through various connections and channels, and I hope that I can change my decision, at least not so decisively, and leave it to Owen. Stone had a decent transition period, allowing him to move to other places on his own, so as not to create the impression of being expelled from the group in public; Or, you can give him a more generous financial compensation and a more polite and better professional evaluation, so that the two sides can get along and leave room for the future. In short, they don't want me to leave a tough and domineering public image on the media in this way.

But I ignored these lobbying and stuck with the decisions made at the board. Irving. Stone must leave the CBC Group immediately.

When all lobbying on this matter was completely ineffective, and the decision to appoint and dismiss the personnel was irreputable and irretrievable, Owen . Stone said he could accept the board's decision, but asked to see me alone before leaving CBC.

I said yes to Owen very quickly. Stone's request.

I met this man in a suit and leather shoes, with gray hair, who looked personable and polite in my office.

I listened to his hurried, angry footsteps as he approached the hallway, and then, he appeared in my office.

After he sat down across from me, he said to me straight to the point: "First of all, Esabelle, please don't get me wrong. I am not here to beg for your mercy, nor to offer you anything more. I just wanted to ask you for an explanation. I want to die to understand. You have to tell me clearly, why the hell is this? ”

He said: "I just want to know why you insisted on me leaving CBC. What does this have to do with your forcible annexation of the CBC? ”

He said, "Or, I put it more bluntly? Are you deliberately planning and forcibly annexing the CBC at all costs just to hit me? ”

I said: "The purpose of the acquisition and annexation of CBC is the long-term business strategy of the Group and is the core secret of the Group. As a former CBC employee who has been removed, this is not something you should know. I can't explain more to you either. As for why the Board fired you, it was because CBC needed a new direction, as a representative of the past, you are no longer suitable for a senior management role in the Group, and we do not want to delay your time and future. ”

He stared me in the eye and said to me, "Belle! That's not your real purpose! You're lying. That's not why you're trying to get rid of me. ”

He said: "I can feel that you want to get rid of me for business purposes, you have to get rid of me because you hate me." ”

"Although I don't know why you hate me, I know that you hate me very much in your heart," he said. ”

He said: "I already knew before I came, and you will never understand and tell me the real reason why you hate me. I didn't expect anything of value from your mouth. ”

He said, "I have only come to tell you that I know you are going to drive me away because you hate me." I'm just going to tell you before I leave that I know about it. ”

He said, "What you said before is!" It's because you hate me that you're thinking of buying CBC. ”

Although I never told him the real reason for this, he did see through the real motives of my actions.

I have to say, Owen. Stone has a sharpness that he can't ignore. He looked into my heart. He just doesn't have enough strength to compete with the money power behind me.

He was forced to accept my expulsion, but he was not reconciled.

With these words, he stood up.

He stood at my desk, looked at me condescendingly, and said, "Esabelle, this is not over yet. It's just the first round of boxing. You didn't knock me down, let alone defeat me. ”

He looked at me hatefully and said, "Wait and see, I'll keep your ears clean for the rest of your life." ”

He said: "You better be careful and not make mistakes, or you will wait for the condemnation of public opinion to bury you alive." ”

I said, "My ears have never been clean since I was born." With or without you, public opinion is always waiting to bury me. Good luck, sir. ”

I pressed the pager on the table, "Please come in and get Mr. Stone out." ”

(iv)

I bought CBC and got rid of Owen. Stone's real reason: I saw one of his op-eds in the CBC-published magazine that was available on that plane.

In his op-ed, he made the following point:

1. He does not understand why the law would impose such a felony on violence and violence, and he believes that it is a kind of favoritism and compromise of the law to the unreasonable collective will of women.

2. He doesn't understand what women have to lose in rape. He said it was just getting them to do the kind of thing they often do, or the kind they would have to do.

3. He is witty and humorous, and advocates that women should try their best to cooperate and enjoy the fun in the process of violence when they encounter inevitable violence.

4. He called the women who were killed for resisting violence "stupid women", and he said that they did not die of violence, but from their own irrational reactions.

5. He insisted that in all cases of rape, the woman herself must be at fault to cause others to commit violence.

That's the one I'm going to kick him out of CBC.

I don't think anyone who holds his views is not fit to work in any mass media and should not be given the right to speak out to the public.

I had to do something to stop this rhetoric from continuing to spread in the mass media.

Irving. After Stone left the CBC, there was no similar discussion in any of the media controlled by the CBC.

As long as I am in control of the CBC, I will never allow anyone to make such a noise through the CBC again.

Although the law prohibits striking and persecution of a person because of his opinion, that is only a rule on paper.

In practice, there are a million ways to bypass it and put it into practice.

- So, that rule should be seen more as an ideal than as an overly high expectation.

(5)

Irving. Since Stone left CBC, he has indeed been planning to launch a public opinion counterattack against me.

However, he still doesn't understand the power of money enough. Even if it has reached the era of self-media, the power of money is still unstoppable.

Irving. Stone's counterattack was quickly drowned out in a large number of war of words from the media. He didn't get the upper hand, and he didn't have a negative impact on me.

On the contrary, he fought back, bringing me new supporters, and I was seen by many women's groups as a staunch defender of women's rights.

Because of his enmity with me, he never sought a higher position in the media than the CBC.

As time passed, his residual influence waned, and eventually, he returned to his obscurity, becoming a public forgotten figure.

Since then, he has disappeared silently from my life.

(f)

This is a business case for me to be very vindictive when I was younger.

Later I realized that I had overdone it.

Every repentance in life is accomplished by taking the wrong path countless times.

When I was old, I spoke in many media outlets and continued to refute Owen. Stone represents the point of view at the same time as the one on Irving. Stone himself apologized.

I should separate the point of view from the specific person.

Those who have erroneous views need someone to help them correct their mistakes, rather than suddenly having their career prospects ruined.