American Fortune Life
Chapter 401: Backyard Fire
Everyone at the meeting left the 58th floor with an exciting and exciting look on their faces. The new boss's philosophy and courage, momentum and sharpness, the new boss's generous encouragement and endorsement of Newsweek undoubtedly inspired newspaper executives who had fought for it for more than a decade.
Man, what is most frightening is that there is no impetus and no goal to move forward, because that will slow him down, especially when the road is slim and there is no hope.
Andy's presence undoubtedly gave the newspaper's management a glimpse of the future. They were so excited about their profession that they had feelings for the newspaper that they didn't want to see it sink. Now that it's all right, everything's going to be all right, and they can pack up and get ready to go.
Unlike excited, colorful subordinates, Andy sits alone in a luxuriously spacious office in contemplation.
Andy had concerns about "The Cardhouse," his background would make the novel very popular, the grandfather of the party whip, the Congressman's father, how do you think Dunima had a mapped meaning in it, and the readers' minds were very powerful and could never hold the association of the hearted, even if the story was completely fictional.
Forget it, call and ask, if it really affects the family, then move the story to England, where the first version of previous life was about British politics anyway.
In a half-hour, Andy Gao introduced, Old Smith took off his glasses, rubbed his nose, silenced for a while, and turned on a hands-free phone on his desk and said, “Don't worry about mapping or influencing, to be honest, I'd love to see this novel in your mouth right now. You're trying to write a contemporary American political textbook. What worries me most is if you can support the whole story! ”
Indeed, if Andy is just a writer in the ordinary sense, Old Smith's worries are very necessary, and if he sometimes lacks life experience and insufficient knowledge of expertise, it's really hard to write a novel just by imagination.
But after all, Andy was not a normal person, and all he had to do was reprocess his own TV drama back into a novel, and penetration was certainly not difficult for him.
“Rest assured, Grandpa, when I've finished writing, I'll send you an email to see what the problem is, and I'll change it later. ”
“Well, I'll see... ”
Andy hung up the phone and smiled lightly on his face. I couldn't help but think of the kind of smile that Grandpa had when he affirmed the identity of the protagonist's donkey party.
Looking at the next time, the goal of returning this time to stabilize the military has been accomplished, and there is no need to worry too much about the rest of the work. On the issue of redundancy, this will have to wait until the CEO arrives to discuss it with Jon.
By the time he got home, Ivana was waiting for him at the table with the maid.
Andy hugged Ivana's waist, kissed her on the face, took off her suit and handed it to her, unbuckled her shirt, rolled her sleeves and walked to the bathroom.
“Honey, is everything okay?” Ivana leaned against the bathroom door and looked at Andy washing her face with care, she asked.
“It went well, I wanted a smooth transition, not a turmoil, and what was causing the turmoil at the moment was more than massive layoffs, and I went this morning to allay the concerns of the employees... ”
Ivana nodded and agreed that, as Executive Vice President of a real estate group, she naturally understood that and walked into the restaurant with Andy's arm and started having lunch.
After lunch, Ivana lay on the couch, lazily typing a debt, watching her notebook typing on a desk not far away.
Picking up the remote, turning off the TV, getting up from the couch, walking behind Andy, holding him from behind, pressing his chin against his shoulder, looking at the dense numb letters on the notebook screen, curious: “New novel? ”
“Well, a political subject novel for Newsweek, The Cardhouse.” When Andy held himself, he recovered from the superdivine state and stopped typing his hands.
“Oh, I'm going to be the first reader, you write it down, I'll pour you a cup of coffee, I'm going to take a nap, I feel really tired... ”
Andy looked down at herself and walked back to Ivana in the bedroom, laughing, choking herself over the last few days, plus preparing for that dinner, tired was certain, seemed a little too much, coughed up.
On the issue of the "Cardhouse" TV drama restoration novel, he is already a light car familiar road, there is no difficulty. Sometimes he feels that he has become a golden junior. The serial number of novels to support the sales of newspapers is a true copybook.
Over the next few days, Andy found an excellent executive CEO for Newsweek, formerly Frank Gary, Executive Vice President of the Chicago Forum Newspapers Corporation, who was able to recruit a vice president for such a large newspaper, had to say that the Chicago Tribune was also in the process of being acquired, but after listening to Frank Gary.
Andy shook his head and finally understood why he had left the Chicago Tribune, not without his place after the acquisition, but rather that the acquisition, which seemed huge and involved $8.3 billion, was actually just less than $400 million from the gold owners of the Chicago Tribune, and all the funds used for the other acquisitions came from debt financing.
When Frank Gehry learned that the other party was going to acquire the Forums company “in a highly leveraged financial manipulation and employee stock subscription scheme" and that the board of directors of the company agreed, he made a resolute decision to jump, because he knew more than anyone how much the Forums reported the company's capital shortfall was, the debt was 12 billion, and Nima, now there was another real estate agent who wanted to speculate, and he had no idea of the future.
When Andy heard about the takeover and Goldman's career, he knew that Chicago Forum Newspapers, a 160-year-old newspaper giant, was finished.
“Trust me, Frank, in the future you will be absolutely proud of what you have made today! “
Frank Gary doesn't understand why his new boss would say that, but if he chooses to run away, he certainly won't regret it.
With a wealth of experience in the management of large newspapers, JING British talent, a member of the media industry, soon came up with a redundancy plan with the management of newspapers such as Jon Micham, involving 31 branches, and a separate list of institutions with financial problems under investigation and preparation for investigation.
The plan came into Andy's hands and was quickly adopted and implemented, except that for some of the old Newsweek employees, Andy did not choose to fire them directly after a little severance indemnity, but transferred them to the daily newspaper in preparation.
Pitcaplan had little comment on this, first of all it was the decision of the big boss, and secondly the people who were transferred had a lot of publishing experience, and the daily newspaper was originally a combination of a number of regional newspapers, the composition of the staff was already complicated, and now a group of new people are added, so that all disruption is good, which helps in the distribution and integration of personnel.
Work is well under way, and Andy's restoration of the Cardhouse novel went well, with the first eight episodes of the first season written.
After obtaining his grandfather Smith's approval, he gave it to Jon Micham and immediately gave Jon excitement. After all, this novel is very classic, cold repressed, and is a complete criticism of realism.
“Boss, this novel opens up a window of power assumptions through which people can peek at the little known but important aspects of Washington, contemplating the brutal struggle over power and the dark side of humanity in the tangle of interests. It's fantastic. I've seen how people like and aspire to this novel. Genius, boss, you're a genius! ”
Andy wasn't so happy with Jon Micham's admiration, not because he heard so much, saw so much, but because he was in a terrible mood right now, and why, heh, because his backyard was on fire.