American Fortune Life

Everyone in the meeting left the 58th floor with an expression of excitement and excitement on their faces. The new boss ’s ideas and courage, momentum and determination, the new boss ’s impassioned encouragement and his approval of Newsweek, Without a doubt, this group of newspaper executives who have been working for more than ten years feel extremely excited.

People are most afraid of not having the motivation and goal to move forward, because that will make them slowly sink, especially when the road ahead is slim and no hope is seen.

The appearance of Andy has undoubtedly made the management of the newspaper see the future. They are extremely busy with their careers and are full of affection for the newspaper. They do n’t want to see it sink and perish. .

Unlike the sublime and excited subordinates, Andy, sitting alone in the luxurious and spacious office, was lost in thought.

Andy has concerns about "House of Cards". His identity background will make this novel attract much attention. The grandfather of the party whip and the father of the congressman, what do you think of Dunima's mapping? The brains of the readers are very powerful, and they can never hold the association of caring people, even if the story is completely fictional.

Forget it, call and ask, if it really affects the family, then move the story to Britain, anyway, the first version of the previous life is the British politics. ...

After half an hour of introduction by Andy High Speed, Old Smith took off his glasses, rubbed his nose gently, and after a moment of silence, he said to the speakerphone on the desk, "Don't worry about anything Mapping or influence, to be honest, I also want to see the novel in your mouth now. You want to write a contemporary American textbook of politics. My biggest concern is whether your pen power can support the whole. story!"

Indeed, if Andy is just a writer in the ordinary sense, old Smith's worry is very necessary. Sometimes, lack of life experience and insufficient knowledge of professional knowledge, it is really difficult to write novels by imagination alone. Come.

But after all, Andy is not an ordinary person. All he has to do is to restore the TV series into a novel through his own processing. It is naturally not difficult for him to write something.

"Relax, grandpa, when I have finished writing, I will email you to see if there is any problem, and I will modify it at that time."

"Okay, I'll wait and see ..."

Andy hung up the phone with a relaxed smile on his face, and thought of the kind of chuckle when Grandpa expressed affirmation of the protagonist's donkey party status, and couldn't help feeling a little funny.

Looking at the time, the purpose of rushing back to stabilize the army has been completed, and the next work does not need to worry too much about it. Regarding the issue of layoffs, this also needs to wait for eo to discuss with Jon.

By the time he got home, Ivana had set lunch with the maid and waited for him.

Andy grabbed Ivana's waist, kissed her on the cheek, took off her suit and handed it to her, while unbuttoning her shirt cufflinks and rolling up her sleeves, she went to the bathroom.

"Dear, is everything going well?" Ivana leaned at the door of the bathroom, looking at Andy who was washing her hands and face, and asked with concern.

"Very smooth, I want a smooth transition, not turbulence. What can cause turbulence is nothing more than mass layoffs. I go in the morning to dispel employee concerns ..."

Ivana nodded in recognition. As an executive vice president of a real estate group, she naturally understood this. She took Andy's arm and walked into the restaurant together to start lunch.

After lunch, Ivana lay on the sofa, yawned lazily, and looked at her boyfriend who was typing on the laptop at the desk not far away.

Pick up the remote control, turn off the TV, get up from the sofa, Shi Shiran walked behind Andy, hugged him from behind, pressed his chin on his shoulder, looked at the dense letters on the laptop screen, and asked curiously. "New novel?"

"Well, a political novel for the" Newsweek "," House of Cards. "Andy recovered from the supernatural state when Ivana hugged herself, and stopped typing.

"Oh, I want to be the first reader, you write, I pour you a cup of coffee, I want to take a nap, and feel physically tired ..."

Andy looked at Ivana who put down her coffee and walked back to the bedroom. She couldn't help but smile. She had tossed her enough in the past few days. In addition, preparing for the dinner, fatigue was certain, it seemed that she was a little too much. , Keke.

As for the novel of "House of Cards" TV series, he is already familiar with the novel and has no difficulty. Sometimes he feels that he has become Jin Yong. Using the serialization of the novel to support the sales of newspapers is a veritable manuscript.

In the next few days, Andy found a good executive ceo for Newsweek through a headhunting company. The former executive vice president of Chicago Tribune Frank Gehry was able to recruit such a large newspaper. The vice president had to say that the Chicago Tribune, which was also in the process of being acquired, had heard what Frank Gehry was saying.

Andy shook his head and laughed, and finally understood why he left the Chicago Tribune. It is not that he did not have his position after the acquisition, but that the acquisition case, which seems to be huge, involved $ 8.3 billion. The master just paid out less than 400 million U.S. dollars, and all other funds used for the acquisition came from debt financing.

When Frank Gehry learned that the other party was going to use the "highly leveraged financial operation and employee stock option plan" to acquire Forum Company, and the company's board of directors agreed, he decided to change jobs because he was better than anyone else. Understand how treacherous the funding gap of the Tribune Company is, and the debt is 12 billion. Nima, now there is a real estate developer who wants to speculate, and there is no future at all.

After hearing about the acquisition method and the career of the gold owner, Andy knew that the Chicago Tribune newspaper company, a 160-year-old newspaper giant, was finished.

"Trust me, Frank, you will definitely be proud of the decisions you make today!"

Although Frank Gehry didn't understand why his new boss said so, but since he chose to leave, he would naturally not regret it.

He is a British talent in the media industry and has extensive experience in large-scale newspaper management. Soon, he and the management of newspapers such as Jon Mitcham came up with a layoff plan involving 31 branches. Separate from financially-involved agencies preparing to investigate.

The plan was handed over to Andy, and it was quickly adopted and implemented. However, for some of the old employees of Newsweek, Andy did not choose to directly dismiss some compensation for the termination, but to fire them. Transferred to the daily newspaper which is under preparation.

Pete Kaplan didn't have much opinion on this. The first was the decision of the big boss. The second group of people after all had rich publishing experience, and the daily newspaper was originally a combination of a number of regional newspapers. It's complicated. Now add a group of new people, so that it can disrupt all of them and help to allocate and integrate personnel.

All work is proceeding in an orderly manner, and Andy's restoration of the novel "House of Cards" is also very smooth. The first eight episodes of the first season have been written.

After receiving the approval of his grandfather and old Smith, he handed it over to Jon Mitcham, which immediately made Jon excited and excited. After all, this novel is indeed very classic, cold and oppressive, and it is a completely critical realism style.

"Boss, your novel is simply a window of power for the people. Through the window, they can peek into the little-known but important Washington, thinking about the human nature in the cruel battle of power summit and the conflict of interests. The dark side is simply awesome. I've seen how people like and follow this novel. Genius, boss, you are really a genius! "

Andy wasn't so happy about Jon Mitcham's admiration, not because he's heard so much or read too much, but because he's in a bad mood now, as to why, haha, because his backyard is on fire Already.