Just when Tang Ning was heartbroken and analyzed the huge gap between the Soviet Union and the Japanese prisoners of war, he suddenly received a report that Jimmy DuPont came to him, which made Tang Ning a little surprised, it is said that this old brother should be busy being his playboy in Hollywood, and the unspoken rules of female stars, how can he have time to suddenly come to Tokyo, and usually he will send a telegram to himself before he comes, this time he didn't even say hello in advance, is there something urgent.

After meeting, Tangning was even more surprised, because the Jimmy DuPont in front of him was no longer the chic and uninhibited and unscrupulous appearance he used to be, but extremely decadent, at least Tangning had never seen him like this, so Tangning hurriedly asked: "Jimmy boss, what's wrong with you?" What's going on? ”

Jimmy sat down on the couch and said in a hoarse voice, "Tony, do you have any wine?" ”

Tang Ning instructed Dashan Beida to get the wine, and asked, "The wine will be there soon, but what happened to you, Jimmy?" Tell me what I can do. ”

Jimmy shook his head and sighed, "It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over the DuPonts!" ”

Tang Ning was a little puzzled: "The DuPont family is finished?" It's impossible, my nylon factory delivered a batch of goods last month, which is quite normal. ”

At this time, Dashan Beida sent the wine over, Jimmy grabbed it, raised his neck and poured a big sip, and then said: "Now there is no problem with nylon, everything else is finished, General Motors is gone, and the rubber company has been robbed by the old Rockefeller, and now the company doesn't even want us family children, Tony, you said that there is no surname DuPont in this DuPont company, so can it still be called DuPont?" ”

After chatting for a long time, Tang Ning finally figured out what was going on. I've already said that. The DuPont family is the only family in a large American group that still maintains a family management model, and non-DuPont family members are not allowed to hold senior management positions, and even the family is still using backward intermarriage methods to prevent the spillover of family assets, so even Jimmy DuPont, an uneducated playboy, is still one of the company's executives. Of course, his other talent has been tapped by Downing, and the current film company is doing quite well.

However, sooner or later, this backward management system will go wrong. In the past two years, because many of the company's patents have expired, there are many strong competitors at once. The company is facing many crises. More than $1 billion in generic stock owned by the DuPont family was forced to sell, and the DuPont family's good assets for many years were divested; The family-controlled American Rubber Company was also snatched up by the Rockefeller family.

Fortunately, the DuPont family has always been not short of talents, and Copeland, the fifth-generation head of the family, who was appointed in danger, served as a leader in the era of family crisis. (The crisis of the Dupont family appeared in 1962, and it was brought forward in this book due to the needs of the plot)

Copeland believes that since the company has problems in operation, it means that the old business model is no longer suitable for the company's development. In order to cope with this dilemma. Copeland proposes a new management policy. Last month, Copeland ceded the position of general manager to Marco, who is not from the DuPont family, for the first time, and the chairman of the finance committee was also held by someone else, and he took the position of chairman full-time, thus forming a "three-headed carriage-style" system, reflecting the organizational form of the "three-tier pyramid". In fact, this organizational level is the level of security organization that must be adopted by large global companies in the future. Establishment of such an "effective and scalable management tool". This marks DuPont's third transformation: from a family-owned company to a modern mega-corporation. With this, DuPont ushered in its third century of sustainable development.

Although Copeland's reform is the right thing for the entire DuPont group. But reform will inevitably bring pain and resistance, and the most injured are parasitic family members like Jimmy, who have been kicked out as soon as the company has reformed, although the monthly family allowance is still much higher than the average person's income. But this huge psychological gap is unacceptable for a while. It felt like the posture of the banner man who learned that the hardcore crops had been cut and exclaimed the Qing Dynasty pills, which was the same.

For this situation, Downing can understand both ends, if he is replaced by Copeland's position. He may be more ruthless, but from Jimmy's point of view, he can also understand Jimmy's sadness and loss at the moment, so he can only comfort: "Jimmy, you don't have to be so sad, in fact, Uncle Copeland is right to do this, the family-style management model is no longer suitable for the current market environment, so there must be a change, besides, your brother now has such a big film distribution company, is there still a little money from the family." Even if you don't bear the name of the DuPont family, just rely on you Jimmy, who would dare to underestimate you now? ”

Jimmy still said helplessly: "I actually understand this truth, I have been the boss for several years, I know that there should not be so many idlers at home, I can't do it, not to mention, and even make trouble." Not to mention the dismissal of such a guy, even if he is thrown out of the family, I won't care, but how can the position of general manager and financial speaker be given to someone with a foreign surname? This, this in case they hook up in private, then whether the DuPont family can still be surnamed DuPont in the future is a matter of two words. ”

Tang Ning smiled: "You are worrying about the sky, don't talk about it far away, just look at the Rockefeller family who robbed your rubber company this time, the reform is much earlier than you, do you see that it has been robbed now?" It's not well developed. ”

Jimmy muttered, "That's fine, but I'm always upset." Forget it, forget it, I came to you this time to relax, not to mention these troublesome things, by the way, do you have any good movies recently? It's better to be like Godzilla, so that we can make another good profit, you know, this film has been in New York for a full 47 weeks, and with this film, everyone in Hollywood is now admiring my vision. It is said that Toho is still filming the second part, or let's find a way to get the copyright of this one. ”

Tang Ning shook his head: "This is enough, if it wasn't just in time for the left-wing and right-wing fighting methods last time, we wouldn't have been able to force Dongbao to bow his head, so they won't give us death in this sequel, so let's think of another way." (To be continued......)