Chapter 1172: Microsoft's little action

Chapter 1172: Microsoft's little action

Eric talked to Mark McCormack about the IMG group and watched the game.

Anna Kournikova, who was highly anticipated by the audience, did not play supernormally. She was cleared by the veteran Davenport in two games. The whole game took only two and a half hours.

In order to avoid the flow of people during the break, Eric and his team left the game a few minutes earlier.

The transaction has basically been finalized, and Mark McCormack did not stop too much. The old man lived in Greenwich Village, so he boarded a yacht at the seashore pier north of the National Tennis Center and left quickly.

Sending away Mark McCormack, IMG Group CEO Payne Forsterman enthusiastically said to Eric: "Mr. Williams, are you going to our training center? It’s the one next to the stadium. Building, Anna will wait for them to pass."

Eric listened to the eager tone of Payne Forsterman's temptation and knew that he was worried about his position after the acquisition of IMG.

The CEOs of big companies usually look very glamorous to outsiders, but in fact, except for a few strong enough company CEOs, others are just senior wage earners who may be dismissed by the board of directors or major shareholders at any time.

For the acquisition of IMG Group, Eric did have a bit of a whim, but since he did, he did not have the mind to play the ticket.

Penn Forsterman has been in the position of CEO of IMG Group for five years. Eric has also seen the financial situation of IMG Group in recent years. In general, Payne Forsterman is still very outstanding.

Although the acquisition was originally initiated by Cindy and Linda, the two women are unlikely to participate in the management of the company in the short term. Eric is not used to replacing the company after acquiring a company like other investors. Management's habit of eliminating the influence of the original shareholders.

Nodded, invited Payne Forsterman to take his own car and wait for the car to start. Eric said: "Payne, regarding the management of the company after the acquisition, I am not going to make any adjustments for the time being. If you don't have For other arrangements, I hope that you can continue to be the CEO of IMG Group."

When I heard Eric said, Penn Forsterman, who had been married for some time, finally settled down and said, "Mr. Williams, I am happy to continue working for you."

Eric nodded, but said again: "One thing I have to declare in advance, Payne, although IMG is just a small company for me, but I personally measure a company with a market value of $100 billion and worth 10 The scale of a billion-dollar enterprise is exactly the same. Either it has a high growth potential, or it brings me direct benefits. So, you don’t need to worry because IMG is not important to the entire firefly system. Also don't be lucky because of this. Although I don't directly intervene in the management of the company, IMG Group will need to provide me with more detailed operational and financial reports every quarter."

Payne Forsterman also learned in advance about Eric's ins and outs of the IMG Group's acquisition. He was envious of Cindy Crawford's thoughts, and he did not have the idea of ​​giving birth to some Tiangao emperors.

After all, although it is a giant in the industry, the IMG Group can only be regarded as a small seesaw near the aircraft carrier in the face of the huge size of the firefly system.

At this time, Eric listened to the words without warning, and Payne Fosterman couldn’t help himself. At the same time, I realized that although the young man next to him is twenty years younger than him, from this young man who has created a big business empire in a short period of ten years, whoever dares to be born because of his age and other factors Despise, that is the idiot.

Thinking about it, Payne Forsterman quickly said: "Mr. Williams, I assure you that the future development of IMG will definitely be better than now."

“I know that IMG Group is currently doing the best in the industry, and it is not so easy to think about further development.” Eric showed a satisfactory expression, but continued: “So, I am not like those The shareholder of a listed company also asks how much performance growth you make every fiscal year or even every quarter. As long as the reasons are right, I can even bear the financial situation of the company for a certain period of time. However, you must keep the fireflies Enough loyalty, to do this, you can have enough autonomy at IMG, and if you can't, I will let you lose the job in a minute."

Eric’s ignorance of the superiors over the years has put a lot of pressure on Payne Forsterman. Even though he is in an air-conditioned car, middle-aged people still feel a touch of faintness on their backs. Sweat.

Once again, he assured Eric that Payne Forsterman also realized that he wanted to maintain the job, which seemed simple, but it was definitely not that easy.

Over the years, Eric has become more and more aware that to manage the growing assets of the firefly system, in the final analysis, it is still human management.

As long as you choose the right executives to ensure that the other party has sufficient talents and can fully implement their own will, then the company that this person manages is usually not too bad. The reason why many outstanding companies are declining often comes from an out-of-control management.

The dock was just less than two kilometers away from the National Tennis Center. Eric’s car was once again parked outside a closed stadium near the National Tennis Center.

After everyone got out of the car, the bodyguard who left Eric’s instructions before the game also came back with a box and walked into the stadium with Eric, who was off the bus.

This sports center in Queens is just a few dozen games of various types of tennis competitions each year. As the world's largest sports star agency, IMG is not surprisingly surprised to have a small training venue nearby. .

Eric walked around the training center and listened to the introduction of Payne Forsterman. He suddenly remembered one thing and asked: "How long is Anna's contract?"

“Three years,” Payne Forsterman replied skillfully and explained: “The company basically signs up with players around the age of 10. The official professional competition usually starts at age 14. Anna’s signing age is 11 The contract is for ten years and ends in 2002."

"According to Anna's status, after three years, do you think it is necessary for IMG to focus on her?"

"This, you need to see the situation," said Payne Fosterman. "If Anna's performance is still mediocre as it is now, and we have a better reserve, then IMG will definitely give up."

Eric nodded and said: "I remember that IMG has been training reserve talent for the company in the Florida Sports Institute. Let me give you a copy of the information."

Payne Forsterman is somewhat unclear, saying: "Mr. Williams, is it now?"

Eric looked up at the table and nodded. "There is still some time today."

Payne Fosterman quickly told the assistants who were behind him to sort out the information. After the incident, I saw Eric sitting down on the bench next to the indoor tennis court and went over.

However, although the bench was enough for two people to sit, but the other people who followed Eric stood, Eric did not invite, and Payne Forsterman had to smile and stand next to him, see Eric. The suitcase that had just been taken by the bodyguard opened and looked at it curiously, only to find that there were all kinds of glasses in the box.

Eric picked it up with great interest, picked up a blue-rimmed glasses and looked at it. He took off the lens and handed it to Catherine Neumann, who was always with him. He said, "Hey, try it. ""

Compared to Eric's several bodyguards, Payne Forsterman always feels the strong presence of the OL girl next to Eric from the beginning, even if the other party has never been there. Said a few words.

At this point, seeing the girl obediently took the glasses frame without the lens, and Payne Forsterman could not help but admire.

As the head of the brokerage firm who also controls hundreds of the world's best models, Payne Forsterman is used to a variety of beautiful vases, but Eric's tall and beautiful girl is His feelings are absolutely irrelevant to the vase. Payne Forsterman can even feel a faint threat from the other side of the creature, like the black widow spider who can eat males at any time.

Perhaps, only Eric Williams can surrender this natural woman.

Eric and other Katherine Neumann put on their glasses, looked at them carefully, shook their heads dissatisfiedly, and changed the frames of several other colors, but they were all very unsatisfactory. Finally, they chose a slightly square. The black glasses frame was handed to the girl and said: "It seems that this should be the case."

Women, especially women in the workplace, tend to look stronger if they wear black-rimmed glasses.

However, as Eric said, after Catherine Neumann put on the black-rimmed glasses, the original temperament was inexplicably weakened, at least, including the surrounding Eric. Men feel that Catherine Neumann has softened the whole person at this time.

Estimated that this is some kind of positive effect.

Satisfied with the head, Eric put his hands on the box on his knees and said to Catherine Neumann: "You are like this in the future. How good, don't always have the momentum to let others want to jump. Hey, Smile"

Katherine Neumann nodded obediently, her lips curled up, revealing a very standard smile.

Then everyone suddenly felt that it was not very good.

Quickly swinging his hand, Eric reluctantly said: "Don't laugh, I can now be sure that the look of your interview must be installed. Forget it, today's thing is like this, go back and tell Cindy that I am busy. I have seen her in the past few days."

Katherine Neumann said goodbye to Eric, and turned and walked out.

The snoring of the high heels until the rhythm had almost no deviation completely disappeared, and Payne Forsterman reacted, and Zhang Zhang mouth wanted to make a joke, but then he swallowed.

The girl had just left, and the assistant of Payne Forsterman quickly came over with a stack of thick documents, and some strange atmosphere was broken.

After picking up the folder from the assistant and handing it to Eric, Payne Forsterman asked: "Why did they not come over?"

The assistant carefully looked at Eric and said: "Miss Kournikova has just quarreled with Mr. Essenbad. Mr. Essenbad wants her to return to Florida for training. Miss Kournikova wants to go. The Caribbean is distracted. Ms. Davenport sprained her ankle while playing. She has a game next week and was rushed to the health center just after the event."

Payne Fosterman’s face is a bit unsightly, saying: “You have to let Anna come over and always say hello to Mr. Williams.”

The assistant responded and hurriedly left the training ground.

Eric looked at the information in his hand and heard that the dialogue between Payne Forsterman and the assistant just smiled. When the two finished, he pointed to the side and gestured to Payne Forsterman. Also sit down.

Payne Forsterman sat down next to Eric and looked at the information in Eric's hands. He said: "Our star detectives recommend many children every year, but in fact, it is really good to be a top player. There aren't many seedlings, and even if the qualifications are good, most of the children can't bear the long-term boring and heavy training. Therefore, even the students we directly sponsor, the percentage of students who can really grow into top professional players is very low, one hundred people. It’s not bad to have two or three in the middle. Anna is a Russian sports family. She has been in contact with tennis since she was 5 years old.

Eric listened to Payne Forsterman's words, only slightly nodded, still looking at the information in his hands.

From the time of Anna Kournikova contract just revealed by Payne Forsterman, in memory, another tennis actress, just happened to be emerging before and after the expiration of Anna Kournikova contract.

With the strength of IMG in the industry and the coincidence of time, Eric can almost certainly determine that the other party should be the star of IMG.

After a while, the information in the hand had just turned over less than a third. Eric stopped and picked out one of the thick materials. He carefully read it and handed it to Payne Fu next to him. Sterman.

Payne Forsterman was so unclear that he took it and looked at the girl. The **** the information still came from Russia, named Maria Sharapova.

"Mr. Williams, is this?"

Eric continued to turn down and said: "Give this girl the best team. As for whether or not to become Anna's successor, look at her own efforts. In addition, she should have a whole tooth, now the teeth. Not very good looking, I don't like steel braces, it's better to use invisible."

Payne Fosterman immediately remembered some of Eric's things. The name given to him by the IMG was now a supermodel. Later, Eric also passed Cindy Crawford. I came in to another girl from IMG.

However, thinking about it, Payne Forsterman’s face did not show any strangeness, nodded seriously, and said, “I will let people do it.”

Speaking and looking at the information in hand, the girl named Sharapova is just 12 years old this year. Although she still has some small freckles on her face, it is also a standard beauty embryo. It is estimated that IMG will be used as a little princess, and it should soon be able to grow into a real little beauty.

Eric also has no explanation. He has no special enthusiasm for the little girl. He is only interested in growing up, but some people seem to have identified certain things. If they explain, the estimate will only be more and more black. .

Talking to Payne Forsterman, the phone that Eric carried with him suddenly rang.

I saw the caller ID, which was sent by Yahoo CEO Ian Gurni, and I answered it immediately: "Ian, it is me."

On the other side of the phone, Ian Gurney said something quickly, Eric listened patiently, but his expression was not very good looking.

It turned out that Microsoft, which was negotiating with the Justice Department, suddenly sent a message that Washington had objected to the browser pre-installation contract signed by Yahoo and Microsoft, asking Ian Gurney to go to Washington for consultation. Explain the suspected monopoly contained in it.

Although it was a request from the Ministry of Justice, Eyre Gnell quickly realized that this incident was more likely to be a dissatisfied Microsoft secretly making a small move.