Chapter 830 (1/2)
Before the transformation of elite drama, grace had a considerable reputation in the company because of her deep resources and contacts in her daily work and the success of the new media operation Department. Otherwise, John Casablanca would not turn over because of the threat of status. In addition, Simon westero came out in person this time, grace took over elite very smoothly.
Simon revealed last year that she wanted to let her take charge of elite. She had no doubt that men had the ability to push her to the top. Grace had considered it more than once in private. She sent Simon upstairs to have a rest. In the following hour, grace began to adjust elite in an orderly way according to some previous considerations.
First, a series of job structure adjustments.
Because it is an unlisted private enterprise and there is no CEO title, grace is the president of elite company. This time, she is the head of the elite models management, which leads all the global subsidiaries of the modeling giant.
Elite had a board of directors before. With Simon's permission, grace announced the dissolution of the Department on the spot. In the future, the management will only report directly to the shareholders, mainly Apollo management company.
It's just Simon.
The main reason for holding 55% of elite through Apollo management is to avoid conflict of interest.
All walks of life in the United States have legal provisions to avoid conflicts of interest.
From the ”moral reform law” for government employees to the ”labor relations law” for enterprises, and then to the ”model rules of professional conduct” which specifically limits a certain field, such as the lawyer industry, there are legal restrictions to avoid the professional subject representing the interests of both sides at the same time and bias one side to bring losses to the other side in practice.
Hollywood's talent agency companies can not directly set foot in the production business, which is restricted by the relevant federal and California conflict of interest regulations.
However, there is a large degree of operational leeway in the implementation of most laws.
Just like the project packaging mechanism created by Michael owitz, it is actually bypassing the legal provisions that the brokerage company can not get involved in the production business in order to obtain more benefits.
The model agency industry has very loose restrictions on conflict of interest regulations.
Just like a golden real estate company, it used to have a model agency, a TV production company and a direct involvement in the field of fashion. In fact, these three areas are all in conflict with each other, and they can be bypassed only by using some commercial means such as trusteeship and affiliation, at least on the surface.
For elite, Simon has the same strategy.
She took charge of elite in person and announced the dissolution of the board of directors. Grace impolitely removed the president of elite's US branch who used to be John Casablanca's confidant and replaced him with a senior executive who usually made friends with her. At the same time, he also appointed the head of elite advertising planning department, which was promoted before Casablanca's turn over.
Grace fine tuned the Department and renamed it business planning.
It seems that the change of a word actually means that this department will be involved in not only advertising planning, but also activities planning similar to elite's model competition in recent years.
This is also taking over power in disguise, and directly holding the right to hold the world elite model contest, which has become more and more influential in recent years.
Apart from advertising and competition, this department will also be involved in TV program production and fashion activity planning in the future. At first, grace just wanted to start from advertising business. Now that she has mastered elite, she can carry out reform according to her own ideas.
In fact, it is also imitating img (International Management Group), another giant in the talent agency industry.
With Tiger Woods and other sports celebrities, IMG's main business is concentrated in the sports field. In recent years, it has also started to set foot in the model agency industry, mainly Acting for high-end customers. Therefore, the scale of relevant aspects is far less than elite. However, compared with elite's empty scale and single business, IMG has been trying to break through its core business of talent agency in recent years. Now, it has expanded its brand to planning consultation, sports training, TV production and other aspects.
Because of the great success of this diversified operation strategy, IMG not only gets rid of its dependence on talent agency business, but also makes more big names rely on img's resource channels in turn. At the same time, IMG is far larger than elite.
Most importantly, IMG has gained the right to speak in the field of sports.
It's like CAA in Hollywood.
If it wasn't for Simon, the big butterfly, and relying on the project packaging mechanism, Michael owitz would have been the first person on Hollywood's power list in the past few years.
As long as elite's diversification strategy is successful, the model agent giant can also gain a stronger voice in the fashion field, instead of being the lowest end of the fashion industry chain at the present stage. In order to win more opportunities for its customers, it has to try every means to win over all aspects.After arranging these things, grace asked elite's legal department to start drafting the contract again and transfer a series of model contracts that John Casablanca held directly to her personal name.
In fact, grace also hopes to implement the CAA model, which can avoid internal friction to the greatest extent and bind the interests of all agents of the company together.
It's just that it's not appropriate at this stage.
Because CAA's Cross agency model is essentially a decentralization, to avoid any agent with a large number of top customers to leave.
If elite wants to complete a transformation, it must not be decentralized in the short term. For this old model agency, which has accumulated many years of disadvantages and is bloated and inefficient, strong centralization of power is the key to realize the transformation. Otherwise, any reform measure may be shirked and perfunctory because of the lack of strong skills of the helmsman.
As a result, nothing can be changed
the meeting is over, and it's already 12 o'clock at noon. Grace comes upstairs and knocks on her office door. Her vigorous action just disappeared. Seeing the three women of Cindy, who are talking and laughing around Simon in the room, she just nods and says to the man, ”Simon, it's already noon. Can I invite you to lunch ？”
Women are naturally good at disguise.
Simon nodded with a cooperative smile, got up and said, ”good.”
In fact, the three women really want to be together. They just feel Grace's light glance and immediately give up the idea. The woman's sixth sense is also very sensitive. Karen Mulder, who was swept by Grace's eyes, can't help shrinking her neck because of her guilty heart. She wants to take the opportunity to say a few words until Simon and grace leave.
They left elite headquarters and got into Simon's car in the underground parking lot. Grace suddenly lost her strong woman demeanor and couldn't help leaning over and embracing Simon's arm. She was curious and said, ”what's the matter with Karen?”
Simon felt Grace's emotion, so he took the woman over and put it on his lap. He said, ”I'm with Cindy for two days. She broke in.”
Grace said, ”I'll fire her this afternoon.”
Simon around the woman's waist: ”but, she asked me to help intercede, I agreed.”
Grace raised her face, rubbed Simon's stubble chin, breathed a little more quickly, and whispered, ”let her go.”
Simon bowed his head and gave a kiss on the woman's lips. He said with a smile, ”so independent?”
”You Well, that's my opinion. ”
In fact, there is still a lot of work to do in the afternoon. However, when she is with Simon, grace doesn't care about the concept of time at all. It's a big deal to add one more time off in the afternoon and evening.
They arrived at Simon's upper east side apartment, also on Fifth Avenue, and didn't sit at the table until 1:30 p.m.
The housekeeper, angri Davies, personally delivered lunch to them. Noticing Grace's face after being moistened, she couldn't help admiring her.
Looking at the housekeeper's back as she left, grace said to Simon, ”I'll let Karen and Lima come with you in the evening?”
Simon slowly cut the black pepper sturgeon in the plate, shook his head and said, ”no, you do your own things. You don't need to help me arrange these all the time. It's not good for your reputation.”