giants of the era

Chapter 245 How the prodigal son is made!
The industry and the media were extremely surprised.

The famous American economist Lauryn Truman expressed his views on Wang Lie’s succession as the president of Wang An Computer Company on ABC TV, “David S. Landes once wrote a book called "The Greatest Family Business in the World" Books, which concluded that successful family businesses are basically distributed in three areas: banking, automobiles, and traditional energy industries.

In these fields, the family's prestige and social influence can be passed on, and the resources owned by the family will not be easily taken away by competitors.

Those legendary patriarchs, they were brave entrepreneurs, did well on their own, and eventually created a kingdom.And their successors can keep the family business going as long as they don't make big mistakes.

The IT industry where Wang An's company is located is a rapidly developing field. Here, ordinary people's conservatives will be quickly eliminated.As far as I know, Wang Lie joined Wang An Computer Company as soon as he graduated and was in charge of the company's research department, but his performance was mediocre. Over the years, he announced the launch of more than ten products without success!

Obviously, Wang Lie's ability is too low to be the president of Wang An Computer Company!

Dr. Wang An brought the traditional Chinese family management method into European and American enterprises, and he was bound to face a huge failure! "

Lauryn Truman's comments were endorsed by countless people and reprinted by newspapers.

"Wall Street Journal": "Wang An Computer Company no longer has the aggressive spirit of the past, and has become a conservative and outdated enterprise!!!"

"New York Times": "Dr. Wang An's cronyism will inevitably lead to the decline of Wang An Computer Company!"

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The public opinion in the industry is not optimistic about Wang An Computer Company, and many directors and executives in the company have objections, and the stock price of Wang An Computer Company also plummeted.

However, even so, Wang Lie became the president as he wished.

Not long after, Wang An Computer Company held a press conference.At the press conference, Wang Lie was high-spirited, as if I was the president. When interviewed by media reporters, he said arrogantly: "The personal computer industry is developing rapidly, and Wang An Computer Company is also preparing to enter this industry. Wang An The research and development capabilities of computer companies will definitely develop the fastest and strongest personal computers. At that time, all major computer manufacturers will be afraid!!!”

"Mr. Wang, as far as I know, the computer developed by Wang An Computer Company is not compatible with IBM-PC?" the reporter asked.

"Wang An Computer Company disdains to work with IBM, so our company's products are by no means compatible with IBM-PC products!!!" Wang Lie said very conceitedly.

The reporters were stunned, feeling that Wang Lie was so stupid and stupid.

"I would like to ask Mr. Wang, IBM-PC opened up corresponding technical standards, which led to the vigorous rise of a large number of PC compatible machine manufacturers. In fact, these PC compatible machine manufacturers have become IBM's loose but powerful alliance, around IBM-PC and IBM -Application software for PC compatible machines has been developed one after another. Why are you still so confident?" The reporter asked again.

Wang Lie replied dismissively: "Over the years, IBM has been the overlord of the computer industry. Many companies have succumbed to it, but Wang An Computer Company is not afraid! Even, we will beat it in some fields!" Said At this point, Wang Lie paused for a moment, and raised his voice a few decibels, looking full of complacency! "In the field of personal computers, I also believe that with the strength of Wang An Computer Company, it can definitely defeat IBM! Everyone, please wait and see!"

"Wait and see??"

In front of the TV, Li Zetian, who was watching the live broadcast of the press conference, couldn't help laughing playfully, "Then I really have to wait and see!"

Dongfang Yuqin couldn't help but said: "Wang An is proud and conceited, and Wang Lie is the same, but he doesn't have the talent and ability of his father. If Wang An Computer Company is handed over to him, the building may collapse! It's a pity that Wang An has built it all his life. The legend of the commercial empire has fallen like this!"

Li Zetian looked at it very openly, and said lightly: "There is no empire where the sun never sets forever! Any company will have ups and downs. This is the case with Wang An Computer Company, and so are other companies."

"En." Dongfang Yuqin nodded, "By the way, Mr. Li, I have already ordered you to arrange for a headhunting company to recruit talents from Wang An Computer Company."

"Well, that's good!" Li Zetian laughed. "In Wang An Computer Company, there are many people who don't like Wang Lie. They will leave sooner or later. We will take the initiative to prevent these talents from being lost to other companies!"

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In terms of employing people, Wang Lie did not inherit Wang An's skill of controlling talents, and did not arrange the company's three major R&D pillars - Kaulke, Kaubrow and Sgarr.Originally, Wang An adopted the method of "raising horses in separate troughs" and let them each be in charge of a research and development team to compete with each other to promote the company's development, but Wang Lie emphasized internal cooperation and unified the thinking of the three of them, but this was simply impossible Yes, as a result, the three of them had many conflicts.

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"Calko, hello, I'm an employee of a headhunting company. I heard that you are not satisfied with Wang An Computer Company. Why don't you join another company? Chronos Li values ​​you very much. You might as well consider Sun Microsystems!"

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"Hello, Kaubrow, Kaulke has switched to Sun Microsystems, are you still willing to stay in Wangan Computer Company? The current Wangan Computer Company is no longer the former Wangan Computer Company. Such a big company actually Can you bear to let a person with mediocre ability tell you what to do? Chronos Li is a real good boss. He appreciates your talent very much and hopes that you can join Sun Microsystems!"

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"Sgal, hello, I'm an employee of the headhunting company. Kaurke and Kaublau have joined Sun Microsystems. As the three masterminds of the R&D department of Wang An Computer Company, do you want to stay here alone? "

In the first month when Wang Lie took over as president, Kaulke was poached away by Li Zetian, followed by Kaubrow and Sgarr.The three major R&D masterminds of Wang An Computer Company joined Sun Microsystems one after another, and at the same time took away a group of elite talents.As a result, the research and development strength of Wang An Computer Company plummeted.

Wang Lie didn't care about the loss of talents at first, and he couldn't stop it. He thought that the company has a lot of talent reserves anyway, even if some people go away, the company will not be hurt.

Wang Lie is now focused on how to make the company earn more money and increase his performance after taking office so as to convince everyone. This is also the most beneficial counterattack against public opinion questioning his ability!
In terms of marketing, the service fee for replacing the software necessary to maintain the operation of the equipment has been greatly increased, that is, whoever buys the mainframe or minicomputer of Wang An Computer Company must pay a service fee of 5000 US dollars in advance. Entry fee is only $1000.In addition, the relationship with the dealers has deteriorated. When these dealers call the engineers of Wang An Computer Company because of technical problems, they charge 175 US dollars each time.

During Wang Lie's first month in office, the revenue of Wang An Computer Company increased significantly.

Wang Lie didn't realize the company's crisis at all, instead he was complacent and thought, "Now you can see how powerful I am, since I took over as the president, the company's revenue has increased by tens of millions of dollars compared to last month!! !"

Li Zetian was stunned, and was shocked by Wang Lie's actions of killing chickens and taking eggs.

"Fuck, it's really awesome, it turns out that this is how a prodigal son is made!!!"

When Wang Lie did this, the users of Wang An Computer Company complained endlessly, and many users abandoned it.From the second month onwards, the performance of Wang An Computer Company began to decline sharply.

The employees of the company expressed dissatisfaction one after another, and the media began to advocate that Wang An Computer Company would go bankrupt!

Wang Lie felt nervous at this time, but he insisted: "Wang An Computer Company is a large company with an annual revenue of 30 billion US dollars, and it will never go bankrupt!"

Of course, Wang An Computer Company is so big that it won't go bankrupt in just a few months. What if it takes another year, two years, or three years?
(End of this chapter)