Darren. After listening to Ji Sheng's opinion, Woods asked for specific advice on how to implement it.

Ji Sheng knows everything, such as spending money on a TV station to broadcast the oil cleaning process live 24 hours a day.

Another example is to unite several environmental protection organizations to set up an environmental protection charity fund, anyway, the beautiful country can avoid taxes by engaging in charity, so it should take out part of the tax to make this environmental protection fund, so that it can not only block the mouth of environmental protection organizations, but also smoothly give an explanation to the public.

Darren. After listening to Ji Sheng's series of suggestions, Woods, Barkley, and Agnam immediately apologized, and then drove back to Exxon's headquarters to hold an emergency board meeting.

Exxon has not yet merged with Mobil and is headquartered in New York, and it didn't take long for Darren Woods, Barkley and Agnam to get there.

Exxon Headquarters.

There is no need to explain the presence of ten independent directors and three internal directors of the company, among which independent directors refer to directors who are independent of the company's shareholders and no longer serve within the company, and have no important business or professional ties with the company or the company's management and management, and make independent judgments on the company's affairs.

The composition of the board of directors of large companies in beautiful countries is often only two or three internal directors, and the vast majority of them are outside directors, and the few internal directors are often professional managers.

Although on the surface, almost all directors do not need to own shares of the company, and some are even the operators of other enterprises, this does not affect their exercise of the rights of directors, let alone the shareholders of the company standing behind the major directors, and these shareholders of the company use the directors they have elected to compete for the company's agency rights.

That said, the board of directors of the beautiful country is often divided into two or more factions.

This is exactly the case with Exxon.

Barkley and Agnan are among the independent directors of Exxon pushed by the capital behind them, and Darren . As an in-house director, Woods is also a member of the State Street and Vanguard factions.

But now they are at a disadvantage within Exxon, because their rival, Black Rock, has elected board members who temporarily control the company's proxies.

The board of directors is ongoing.

Darren. Woods repeated Ji Sheng's proposal just now.

Chairman Lawrence said in a cold tone: "The company has already made a decision on this matter, and there is no need to discuss it again." ”

Black Rock Group pushed out the director of the Li . Raymond agreed, "I agree with Lyle. ”

Lyle is the chairman, Lawrence.

The other independent directors did not speak, knowing that this was a struggle between State Street, the Vanguard Coalition faction and the Black Rock Group.

Barkley immediately said: "Since the company has made a decision, why is the company's loss as high as 200 million in just a few days?" ”

Agnam fully supports Darren. Woods, "I agree with Darren's proposal that an immediate public apology should be given, and then a series of remedies should be made to save the company. ”

Lawrence said arbitrarily: "No need to negotiate, so be it." ”

Darren. Woods was so angry that he repeatedly dissuaded him, but the Black Rock faction led by Lawrence just didn't agree to this plan.

The two sides have even quarreled.

A board vote was also held, and in the end, the two sides were tied 6-6 after one of GM's directors abstained.

Events seem to have returned to scorching.

Finally, the actions of Lawrence and others infuriated Darren. Woods, he took a deep breath and said, "Chairman, I'm going to challenge you!" ”

As soon as this statement came out, the board of directors was in an uproar.

Even the two allies, Barkley and Agnam, were shocked, they didn't expect Darren. Woods was so decisive that he directly challenged Lawrence, the current top leader of the company.

A board challenge certainly doesn't mean two people getting into a fight, but it's not that different in nature from a fight.

Somewhat similar to a VAM.

Roughly speaking, one director has enough interests to gamble with another director, and the losing party is likely to export the company's proxies, that is, the director's seat.

Needless to say, winning one more agency seat means having more say on the board of directors.

Especially Darren. Woods still challenged the chairman, if he loses, there is nothing to say, nothing more than a defeat, let the consortium behind it lose a board seat, if he wins, it will be wonderful, Chairman Lawrence has only one way to resign, and when the time comes, Darren. The forces behind Woods have one more board seat and are more likely to become chairman!

Lawrence apparently didn't expect Darren either. Woods was so bold, and at the same time, this challenge also angered him, he squinted his eyes and said, "You want to challenge me?" ”

Darren. Woods said categorically: "Yes! ”

Lawrence laughed angrily, "How are you going to challenge me?" ”

Darren. Woods looked at the chairman calmly, "At present, the company's loss has reached 200 million US dollars, if it does not continue, the loss may be even greater, I only need the company to come up with 300 million US dollars to cooperate with the public relations plan, if the effect of stop loss is not achieved, I will immediately take the blame and resign!" ”

"You only need $300 million to put this down completely? If you can't do it, give up your board seats? Lawrence laughed and said, "Okay, I agree." ”

Darren. Woods immediately answered: "If I fail and resign, what if I succeed?" ”

Forcing the palace!

Darren. Woods: This is forcing the palace!

The other board members are already feeling the breath of the golden iron horses fighting each other!

Lawrence sneered: "If you do what you say, the cost is within three hundred million dollars, then I will resign as chairman!" ”

"It's a deal!"

"Hmm."

The two sides reached a challenger agreement in just a few words, and it was still a bet on the board seats, and no one could afford to lose!

……

Meanwhile.

Ji Sheng is conducting interviews in the "Huajin Capital" company that he has just registered.

He looked at the thirty-seven-eight-year-old male sitting in front of him, a burly white man. White, a graduate of MIT with a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees, and a Ph.D.? ”

Steve. White said, "Yes. ”

Ji Sheng looked at his information and continued: "Worked at Berkshire Hathaway? ”

"Yes."

"I remember Warren Buffett's company has a very good salary package and benefits, why did you quit?"

"Because I don't see any hope of promotion, Mr. Buffett's company is a typical family business, and in the future his son Howard will be the heir to the company, and I want to take control of a company!"

Ambitious, this is an ambitious professional manager.

But Ji Sheng likes such ambitious professional managers, and this is the only one, Steve. White added a lot of points to his impression, and Ji Sheng decided to test this person, "Well, looking at your resume is very good, I really want you to become the general manager of the company, but I also want to test your ability." ”

Steve. White said, "Please speak." ”

Ji Sheng said: "You know the recent Exxon oil spill, right? ”

Steve. Huai nodded, "Yes." ”

Ji Sheng asked: "Then if you are the top person in charge of Exxon, how will you deal with such a thing?" ”

Steve. White laughed, "Actually, I have considered this issue before I came to your company for an interview, if I am the chairman of Exxon, I will definitely fly to Princes Bay as soon as possible, let the company investigate the specific situation of the accident, and then cooperate with the media, local government and environmental protection organizations to come up with a remedial plan as soon as possible, such as cleaning the oil pollution as soon as possible, apologizing to the public, and if necessary, I will also ask the company to take the initiative to come up with environmental compensation." ”

Hey?

It's a bit of a skill.

Ji Sheng looked at the person in front of him who was interviewing for the position of general manager of his company in surprise, and asked with great interest: "Why do you choose to compromise with the media, the public and the local government?" Don't you think this is detrimental to the company's interests? ”

"No, that's not what I thought." Steve. White said eloquently: "I personally think that this kind of public relations crisis evasion is not a good way to deal with it, because the responsibility is always on the company's side, rather than evading responsibility, it is better to take the initiative to take responsibility, and may be forgiven by the outside world, even if the outside world cannot forgive, at least taking the initiative to take responsibility will not attract the outside world to besiege it, but to protect the interests of the company." ”

Ji Sheng laughed, "I'm very satisfied with your answer, in fact, earlier today, I was also talking to someone from Exxon about the handling of the oil spill. ”

Steve. White wondered, "What did you tell them?" ”

As he was talking, Ji Sheng's mobile phone on the interview table rang.

He picked up his phone and said, "Wait a minute. ”

Put through.

On the other end of the phone came Darren. Woods' voice, "Ji, are you busy?" ”

"Hello Mr. Woods, I'm conducting an interview, I'm not busy." Ji Sheng replied truthfully.

Darren. Woods took a deep breath and said, "I convinced the board." ”

Ji Sheng was stunned for a moment, "Convince them so quickly?" Have you given up your interests? ”

"It is worthy of the person who gave such an excellent public relations plan, and he guessed the root at once." Darren. Woods said a little nervously in his tone: "I challenged the chairman of the company, if I can't complete this PR, I will be swept away, but if I win, the next chairman of Exxon...... Hey, it's me! ”

When Ji Sheng heard this, he congratulated and said: "You are the chairman of the board!" ”

"Hopefully." Darren. Woods wasn't too confident, "I'm calling you just to tell you that I'm going to make a lot of effort here, if you want to buy crude oil futures as soon as possible." ”

Ji Sheng smiled and said, "Mr. Woods, you don't seem to have enough confidence?" ”

Darren. Woods smiled wryly, "It's a bit insufficient." ”

Ji Sheng smiled and said: "I am much more confident than you, and I have spent five million dollars to buy crude oil futures with four hundred times leverage." ”

Well, he didn't say when he bought it, in fact, he was with Darren. Woods and the others had already bought it before the interview, and they said this just to give the other party confidence.

Sure enough, Darren. Woods was amazed when he heard this, and immediately asked, "Are you so confident in this PR plan?" ”

Ji Sheng said: "Of course, so Mr. Woods, just let it go, I believe you can successfully become the chairman of Exxon!" ”

Inspired Darren. Woods said arrogantly: "Okay, I'll go and implement the plan you gave, and you can see it right away." ”

Hang up.

Ji Sheng looked at Steve. White, smiling, said, "Congratulations on becoming the general manager of Huajin Capital. ”

Steve. White was overjoyed, "Thank you, boss." As he spoke, he asked curiously, "Boss, what did you and the Exxon people say?" ”

Ji Sheng laughed, "You can see it right away, Exxon's next response is the public relations plan I gave!" ”