Hollywood Hunter

Before Elite changed drastically, the deep resource connections and the success of the new media operation department shown in daily work have given Grace a considerable reputation within the company, otherwise John Casablanca will not be turned over because of the threat to his status. Upper Simon Westero personally showed up this time, and Grace's takeover of Elite was very smooth.

Simon revealed last year that she was in charge of Elite. She had no doubt that Grace, who had the ability to push her to the top, had considered this matter more than once in private and sent Simon to take a rest upstairs. The following hour, Grace according to some of the previous Consider starting to adjust Elite in an orderly manner.

The first is a series of job structure adjustments.

Because it is a non-listed private company and has not set the CEO title, Grace personally acts as the president of Elite. This time, he is the head of the entire Elite Models Management company and leads this model brokerage giant in the world. All subsidiaries within.Elite previously had a board of directors, and with Simon's permission, Grace announced the dissolution of this department on the spot. The management will only report directly to shareholders in the future, mainly Apollo Management.

In fact, he was only responsible to Simon.

The reason why Apollo Management holds 55% of Elite's shares is mainly to avoid conflicts of interest.Various industries in the United States have legal provisions to avoid conflicts of interest.

From the "Ethics Reform Law" to government employees, to the "Labor Relations Law" for enterprises, and to the "Model Code of Professional Conduct" that specifically defines a certain field, such as the lawyer industry, all are under way to prevent professional subjects from representing the interests of both parties. In practice, the legal limitation of biasing one party to bring losses to the other party.

Hollywood's talent agency cannot be directly involved in the production business, but is subject to federal and California conflict of interest regulations.

However, most laws have a lot of room for operation in the implementation process.

Just like the project packaging mechanism created by Michael Ovitz, it is actually in disguise to bypass the legal provisions of the brokerage company that can't get involved in the production business in order to obtain more benefits.The model agency industry has very loose restrictions on conflicts of interest regulations.

Just like a golden-haired real estate developer, it used to be a model agency, a TV production company, and a direct involvement in fashion.In reality, these three areas are in conflict with each other, but it can be bypassed only by using a few commercial methods such as hosting, at least on the surface.

For Elite, Simon is also this strategy.

In charge of Elite personally, announced the dissolution of the board of directors, Grace also unknowingly withdrew the former president of the Elite American branch of John Casablanca, and replaced it with an executive who had been with him on weekdays.At the same time, he also appointed the person in charge of the Elite advertising planning department that was promoted before turning over with Casablanca.

Grace fine-tuned this department and renamed it the business planning department.

The seemingly one-word change actually means that the field involved in this department will be not only advertising planning, but also event planning similar to the model contests that Elite has been holding in recent years.

This is also the power to collect in disguise, and the right to hold the world elite model contest with increasing influence over the years is directly in the hands.

In addition to the fields of advertising and competition, this department will also be involved in TV program production and fashion event planning in the future. Grace initially only wanted to start from the advertising business. Now that she has mastered Elite, she can completely reform according to her own ideas.

This is actually imitating another giant IMG (Management Group) in the talent agency industry.

The main business of IMG, which owns Tiger Woods and other sports majors, is concentrated in the sports field.

Because of the huge success of this diversified operation strategy, IMG not only got rid of its dependence on talent agency business, but also made more big coffees rely on IMG's resource channels in turn, while creating IMG's huge scale far beyond Elite.

The most important point, IMG has also obtained the right to speak in the field of sports.

Just like CAA in Hollywood.

If it weren’t for Simon’s emergence of the big butterfly, relying on the project packaging mechanism, Michael Owitz has been the first person in the Hollywood power list for the past few years.

As long as Elite's diversification strategy is successful, the model brokerage giant can also gain a stronger voice in the fashion field, instead of being the lowest end of the fashion industry chain at this stage. In order to win more opportunities for its customers, it must not I don't want to try every way to please everyone.

After arranging these things, Grace also asked the Elite Legal Department to start to re-construct the contract, transferring a series of model contracts that were originally held by John Casablanca to her personal name.

In fact, Grace also hopes to implement the CAA model, so that internal friction can be avoided to the greatest extent, and the interests of all the company's brokers are tied together.

It is just not suitable for this at this stage.

Because CAA's cross-agent model is essentially a decentralization, avoid any agent leaving with a large number of top customers.

If Elite wants to complete a metamorphosis, it must not be separated in the short term. For this bloated and inefficient model agency that has accumulated many years of ills, strong centralization is the key prerequisite to change. Otherwise, any one All the reform measures may be violated due to various reasons for lack of strong wrists.

Nothing can change

At the end of the meeting, it was already twelve o'clock noon. Grace came upstairs and knocked on the door of her office. The thunderous fashion just disappeared. I saw the three girls in Cindy talking and laughing around Simon in the room, just Nodded and said to the man: "Simon, it's already noon. Can you please have a lunch?"

Women are naturally good at disguising.

Simon nodded in a coordinated smile, got up and said, "Okay."

The three girls actually wanted to be together, only to feel Grace's faint glance, and suddenly gave up the idea. The sixth sense of the woman was also very sensitive. Karen Mud, who was swept by Grace's eyes, was guilty. He couldn't help but shrink his neck, and wanted to take the opportunity to say a few words until Simon and Grace left and couldn't speak.

The two left Elite's headquarters and came to Simon's car in the underground parking lot. Grace suddenly lost the style of the strong woman. She couldn't help but leaned over and embraced Simon's arm, curious: "What's the matter with Karen?"

Simon felt Grace's emotions, and simply took the woman over her lap and said, "I was with Cindy and they were in for two days."

Grace yelled, "I will expel her in the afternoon."

Simon wrapped around the woman's waist: "But she asked me to help her intercede, and I agreed."

Grace raised her face and pressed it against Simon's stubble chin, breathing a little more quickly, and said softly: "Then let her go."

Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman's lips, laughing: "So so indifferent?"

"You... well, that's my opinion."

In fact, there is still a lot of work to be done in the afternoon, but with Simon, Grace doesn’t care about the concept of time at all. It’s a big deal to work overtime in the afternoon and evening.

The two rushed to Simon’s Upper East Side apartment, also on Fifth Avenue, and didn’t sit at the dining table until 1:30 in the afternoon.

The butler Angela Davis personally delivered lunch to the two, and noticed Grace's radiant look after being moisturized.

Grace pointed at the back of the housekeeper when she left, and said to Simon: "I will let Karen and Lima come to accompany you at night?"

Simon Slowly cut the black pepper sturgeon in the dinner plate and shook his head: "No, you do your own thing, you don't need to always arrange this for me, it's bad for your reputation."

Grace yelled.

Actually don't care.

In this circle, and even Hollywood, and the music circle, in order to make the artists under their name high, many agents are doing pimp-like activities, trying every means to push customers into the arms of rich and powerful people.

This is true no matter which circle.

Otherwise, for so many people in the world, the most important thing is to have a good figure and a pretty face. Why can you get on the top, you can go to the big show, you can use luxury endorsements, you can earn others a year and not earn a lifetime The millions of dollars that have been received, is it just that the steps have gone well and the skin is more photogenic?

This is not a fairy tale world.

This is the way of the world, and there is never nothing for no reason.

Maybe after some things are exposed, there will be people filled with indignation, and people will be ruined.However, when the storm dissipates, many things will continue to repeat, repeat again and again, outsiders still can't get used to it, the insiders still take it for granted, of course there will be some outsiders who try to make themselves insiders, and then enjoy this justification together .

What does that say?

Natural selection, weak meat and strong food.

In fact, modern society has been very friendly to the weak, at least it will not allow the weak to always feel the strict level of being killed by life thousands of years ago, as long as the weak do not try to change their own class, they can be stable and secure for life.However, the hierarchy pyramid has never disappeared. Once some unwilling weak people want to climb up, the brutal jungle law will immediately come.I rushed over and looked down on the sentient beings, but I wasn't able to break through.

Inside the restaurant.

Grace quickly took the initiative to mention Elite, who officially took over in the morning. After working for this model agency for many years, she was much more aware of Elite's heritage and potential than Simon. She used to be just an ordinary agent and could only do her own points. What's inside, now that she has a complete platform, whether it's for a career or to live up to Simon's expectations, she hopes to make Elite the best.

"At the beginning, John sold most of Elite's shares to the Canadian private equity fund, and the company's financial situation began to be confused. In recent years, it has become more and more chaotic, you know, so that it will be more convenient for operation. You are losing money, so I plan to conduct a comprehensive financial review of the company as soon as possible."

Simon agreed: "I greet Leon in the afternoon and can use our own accounting team without having to hire a third party."

Grace cut her head and cut the fish, continued: "Also, taking advantage of this review, I plan to clean up some people and take back the powers of the major branches in Europe and Asia. Several branches over there are completely regarded as their own territory. They are definitely not clean, and the excuses are easy to find. In addition, I will also readjust the division rules between the company, brokers and customers."

Simon remembered the 1999 Elite scandal in memory and asked, "Who is responsible for the Paris branch?"

"Gallard Marie," Grace blurted out skillfully, adding: "This is Linda's ex-husband, what's wrong?"

The ex-husband of Linda Ivangolinsta, Simon had never noticed before: "Is this person on your cleaning list?"

"Yeah, I just said that he was the only one who was still John's heir. If you don't drive him away, I don't want to take back the power of the Paris branch."

In this case, Simon did not mention it again, and thought about it, saying: "In fact, these are the details. The first thing you have to change is the internal culture of Elite. This is very important. As far as I know, the atmosphere inside Elite is very Bad, many people regard the company's models as prey, rather than customers, this will not be reversed, and something will happen sooner or later."

Most companies have their own advertised corporate culture.

However, many are just superficial.

As for Elite, the true corporate culture, you can imagine the style of John Casablanca changing an 18-year-old girl as a wife every few years in the past. The words of all the youngest girls who have participated in the Model Contest only twelve-three-year-old, can be seen in the unbridled inside of Elite.

Simon also knows that this is the case throughout the circle, and even now he cannot change much.

However, if you don’t know how to converge, you may be unlucky if Elite does not have time to complete diversification.Now that this company has been won and has a big backer like the Westeros system, the chance of Elite breaking out similar scandals is actually very small, but Simon does not want the Westeros system to provide some bad things for small fish and shrimp Blessings, giving and gain are not directly proportional.

Grace nodded solemnly and looked at Simon with a smile: "So, what are you going to do, and you don't plan to use Elite to pick up girls?"

Simon took it for granted: "China has a very interesting idiom, only Xuzhou officials set fire, not allow people to light up."

Grace wondered: "Huh?"

Simon talked about the meaning of this idiom, and then said: "I am the state official who can set fire. As for those cats, dogs, fish and shrimps, it is right to work hard for me. They lit the lights indiscriminately. Lamp oil."

Grace bent the corner of her mouth, but she nodded her head again and again: "I will help you look at the lamp oil."

"You are also my lamp oil."

"Uh huh, huh, no wonder you have always kept the decision of Victoria's Secret Angel in your own hands."

"I am actually kind, do you believe it?"

"Of course, in fact, I have seen it for a long time. Let those girls know that they want to board the Victoria's Secret TV station, they only need to please Westeros, they don't need to meet the agents, photographers, A whole lot of management."

"So, I was actually taken advantage of."

"Also, you actually don't want those girls to sleep all the way to you."

"Well, don't break this after seeing it. In the future, I will only speak the flattery that I just said."

"Actually, Qusi and they are very grateful to you, just a title of Westeros lover. They have never encountered harassment in this year. You must know that this kind of thing can't be avoided by Cindy, they don't know. How many girls want to be treated like Qu Si, or Cindy won’t always be close to you."

Simon nodded in satisfaction: "Yes, that's it."

Grace's eyes showed tenderness: "I'm serious."

"OK, one or two pieces of cake a day is enough."

Grace stopped to dine and looked at Simon: "Actually, if someone just told me that I want to change Elite's corporate culture, I can only tell him that it is impossible, because this is the norm in this circle, everyone is like this. If you forcibly change, let alone those in power, even the girls are not necessarily willing. Do you know? When many girls are looking for a model agency, they will actively test whether this company can introduce them to paid escorts, if No, they wouldn’t sign the contract instead. This time, because of you, I’m willing to give it a try, and I still can’t change anything. I just hope Elite has the Westeros system to rely on and can be in this circle. Even more powerful, like Hollywood, the little actors at the bottom have become big stars, and coveted will naturally be much less."

Grace talked, and there was some obvious sadness in her tone.

Simon stretched out his hand and took the woman's active hand: "You know, I will protect you, that's it."

Grace smiled again, and in turn shook Simon's big hand: "I know, so I will be willing to be your lamp oil."

"The analogy of lamp oil is actually not very nice, it is better than a vase."

"I feel very good." "Well, as long as you like."

Grace's little finger suddenly ticked in Simon's palm again: "Master, will you light the lamp again in a minute?"