No matter what kind of cooperation, the amount of cooperation and investment required for this iron ore mine is in billions of dollars. Such a large-scale cooperation plan can be ranked in the global mining market. If such negotiations go well, , it may take half a year. If it doesn't go well, it's normal for it to take several years or even longer. After all, in reality, there are many such things now.
Zhou Jiayang also immediately formed a professional team to negotiate with various mining companies. Some of them were British ghosts from Hutchison Whampoa. Now, Hutchison Capital has begun to radiate to Europe and the United States, and these people can be considered useful. The land of martial arts.
Regarding this matter, Chen Zhiwen is not in a hurry, because industries such as gaming and electronics need to seize the time, because if you miss it for half a year, you may miss many golden opportunities. Even Red Bull needs to focus on speed, because in the absence of formation During the monopoly, many giants such as Liangle had the opportunity to successfully overtake with their huge capital and complete channels. As for other real estate industries, they also have their own time requirements.
But this iron ore is already our own in terms of legal rights. Even if it is delayed by three years, five years, or ten years, it does not matter. The price of iron ore will still rise steadily in the future. Only after 2006 will it will rise quickly.
In this case, Chen Zhiwen naturally needs to consider the overall situation. The most important thing is not how much money he can sell, but how he can use this opportunity to squeeze into the mining development ship. When the right time comes in the future, he can Expand Hutchison Mining through mergers and acquisitions.
After Hutchison Mining's discovery of a giant iron ore spread in Hong Kong for a while, the popularity has subsided. After all, this is only the income of a large consortium in Hong Kong, and it has almost no effect on Hong Kong locals.
And Chen Zhiwen also welcomed another legendary CEO of the 20th century to work for him: Michael Eisner.
The vice president of Paramount decided to serve as the CEO of Disney after agreeing to join Chen Zhiwen's invitation. He came to Hong Kong today because he has been working at Disney for a month and has a basic understanding of the company. He came to have appropriate discussions with his boss. communication to facilitate understanding of subsequent development plans.
"How does it feel to be the CEO of Disney for a month?" Chen Zhiwen made a cup of coffee himself and handed it to Eisner.
"Thank you." Michael Eisner said: "Eric, I have to say that Disney is completely rotten now, much worse than I thought. Many of these things are simply unreasonable.
Throughout the company, many people have signed free working hours agreements. As a result, many people can't come two days a week, and there's no way to supervise their work. What's wrong?
At both parks, many employees have a retirement mentality and just go about their business day after day. They even ignore many customers' inquiries and even insult and complain about customers. Even though they know that I went to inspect, many places Hygiene is not good.
There is also the film and television department. Normal Hollywood film companies. Under normal circumstances, except for some capable supporting actors, they basically will not sign work agreements with ordinary people. They will come over temporarily when needed and sign short-term contracts based on photo contracts. , after the film is finished, it will be disbanded. These people can also find jobs in other film companies. This way they will be free and we can easily control costs.
But that's not the case with Disney. They actually signed long-term agreements with many people, and now Disney's movies are not that good. These people have nothing to do every day, but we still have to pay them tens of millions in salary a year.
If it were normal circumstances, I would fire these people immediately. We have signed a contract with the Ministry of Commerce, and we can only fire 1% at most. This makes me a little unable to start. I can only observe for a while to see how I can scare the chickens and scare the monkeys. . "
"If Disney wasn't so bad, how could I, a Chinese, be able to acquire it?" Chen Zhiwen said with a smile and shook his head.
Before the acquisition of Disney, Chen Zhiwen also roughly knew some of the major problems of Disney. He can only use two words to describe them: the worst.
Almost every department has problems of corruption, incompetence, and inequality. After the death of Walt Disney, the second generation of the Disney family was too useless. They didn’t understand the operation of such a large company at all, and they refused to leave it to professional managers. , you have to intervene yourself.
A family is not united as one. Everyone has their own agenda. For their own benefit, they annex the company's rights and interests, and there are all kinds of internal fights. At the same time, due to lack of ability, they are very conservative in management.
It is said that the decline of Disney is because young people no longer like Mickey Mouse, but the reality is that historically, after ten years of management by Michael Eisner, Mickey Mouse has become the most favorite cartoon image among contemporary children. The fundamental reason is actually that there is no innovation.
It is said that the decline of Disney is because young people no longer like Mickey Mouse, but the reality is that historically, after ten years of management by Michael Eisner, Mickey Mouse has become the most favorite cartoon image among contemporary children. The fundamental reason is actually that there is no innovation.
Even if it is not a new cartoon character, it is still Mickey Mouse. There must be constant new animations and new stories to attract users. But obviously the second generation Disney does not have this ability. They will only rest on the great achievements created by the first generation Disney. During the period, I was eating the dividends left behind. Later, when the dividends were used up, I started to operate with debt, and that is until now.
In the original history, many senior executives with foreign surnames left Disney. If Michael Eisner hadn't turned the tide, Disney might not have survived the 1990s.
"But even if you acquire it, these problems will still exist. You can't just keep spending money to subsidize it." Michael Eisner said.
"Since you have agreed to the Ministry of Commerce, it is impossible to breach the contract. In the past two years, according to our authority, you can first fire 1% of the people. Try to take your time and scare other people. Not to mention how much contribution they can make to the company. , but at least you need to do your own thing." Chen Zhiwen said: "This can be regarded as the price of the acquisition, but in these two years, you can also arrange for people to observe all people and assess the basic information. It is really not possible. If so, we will fire them all immediately when the time agreed with the Ministry of Commerce comes."
"To fire them all, such a large number of layoffs will probably cause chaos within the company." Michael Eisner thought for a while and said. Although many people are dawdling, they don’t really do nothing. They can only say they know how to do things, but they don’t do it carefully, don’t take it seriously, do things as simple as they can, etc., but this can be regarded as the current internal operation of the company. It doesn’t matter if there are a few less, but if there are too many, it will definitely affect the company.
"So we need to make preparations in advance, such as recruiting more people. As long as these people are willing to work hard and be attentive, we will focus on training them. Within the next two years, we will slowly let them take over the jobs of those who are just dawdling. Just empty these people slowly." Chen Zhiwen said.
"In this case, the cost will be considerable." Michael Eisner reminded.
"It doesn't matter. From a long-term perspective, even if we keep these people in vain, we must slowly let capable and responsible people do various things in the company. Only in this way can we ensure that in a few years, Disney can start from Come out of the quagmire." Chen Zhiwen said that he doesn't care about a little money. What he cares about is that Disney can return to normal as soon as possible. In the original history, it took Eisner almost 5 years to turn Disney around and 10 years. Time has allowed Disney to return to its previous peak.
But the difference is that at that time, Eisner had the right to directly lay off large-scale layoffs, but now he cannot It is equivalent to a bank that is struggling because of bad debts. If the boss is not short of money, he can divest the bad debts and leave the rest to capable professional managers.
Anyway, after two years, we can directly lay off employees. Doing this now can be regarded as preparing human resources in advance, and it is also a necessary operation.
"Well, if that's the case, it will be a lot more convenient for me. If these people are really not good, just ignore them and then recruit the right people." Michael Eisner nodded and said.
"So the current problem still requires a large amount of funds. Otherwise, the gods will not be able to do anything. The two parks require a large amount of money, and the same goes for animation creation, as well as other businesses." Chen Zhiwen nodded. The boss said: "I can invest 200 million U.S. dollars, but this amount of money is not much for the entire Disney, especially if you still need reform, then it will be good if you can spend it for one year. So, this 200 million U.S. dollars, my The idea is that it needs to be used to make more money.”
"Chen Sheng means making movies?" Michael Eisner guessed what the boss meant. He could make a lot of money quickly in a short time. Apart from financial operations, the only thing left was making movies. This is the specialty of Hollywood companies. Disney is the same, but it's just such a waste. It hasn't produced any good movies in the past ten years, and its ranking has reached the last place in Hollywood. If it didn't have enough historical background, it would have fallen out of the position of one of the eight giants of Hollywood.
"Yes, making new movies is also the animation movie that Disney is best at. If you can succeed with one movie, you can not only earn a lot of money, but also create a new IP, which can also increase Disney's internal confidence. , in this case, it will be enough to maintain Disney's daily operations in a short period of time." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said, now Disney, the entire group is losing more than 100 million US dollars a year, and it will take a long time to change so many loss-making departments. The most efficient way is to make a quick buck first to alleviate the company's decline.
"What movie is that?" Eisner asked.
"Look at this." Chen Zhiwen handed over a book, and Eisner took it and saw that it was "Beauty and the Beast" by the famous French writer Charles Bellot.
(End of chapter)
