MTL - Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981-Chapter 1011 M&A King "Three Thousand Words"

   Chapter 1011 Merger King "Three Thousand Words"

  Wang An Computer Sales Department

  John Chambers looked at the sales data for this quarter, and the more he looked at it, the more he frowned. The sales have not improved in the past few months, which made him a little stressed.

  Of course, the most stressful thing for him is the arrival of the new boss. He doesn't know what will greet him next with the company's current sales performance.

   Dismissal, or demotion.

  Although the company's sales decline is largely caused by products, with the rise of personal computers in recent years, Wang An Computer's market share has continued to shrink, and revenue has continued to decline…

   In any case, as the head of the sales department, it is his responsibility for the decline in performance, and at this point, he has no reason to shirk.

   In 1987, Wang An Computer went through the heyday of the first two years. Even after the influence of Wang Lie, the company as a whole did not change much.

   With a market value of more than 5 billion and more than 30,000 employees, the products developed by Wang An Computer are exported to all over the world, including North America, Europe, Asia, and South America.

   Although compared with the tech giants of later generations with more than 100,000 employees, Wang An Computer’s employees are not too many.

   But please don’t forget, this was in the 1980s, and even in developed countries in Europe and the United States during this period, there were not many people who could use computers.

   At this time, computers are mostly office supplies, expensive and rarely used by ordinary families, not to mention smartphones.

  The market is limited, Wang An Computer can have so many employees at this stage, and it is already one of the best in many technology companies in terms of scale.

   The most important part of the entire Wangan Computer Company is the R&D department. The R&D department has the most staff and belongs to the absolute core of the company, followed by the sales department.

   For more than a year, Wang An’s computer sales have been declining, which has made the employees in the sales department feel more or less pressure. Whether a company sells well or not depends on marketing methods and products.

  Wang An Computer is a step behind PC, so that sales decline, it is reasonable.

   However, no matter what, the decline in sales is an indisputable fact.

   Therefore, after Wang An Computer changed hands, the employees at all levels in the sales department of the company were the most nervous.

   Wang Lie, the prince, has stepped down, everyone is very happy, but the company has a new boss, and everyone can't help but get nervous.

   Who will take over as the general manager next? Will there be any changes in the high-level positions of the supervisors? Will the number of employees be reduced?

  dong dong—

"Come in"

  John Chambers looked up at the door,

   Soon, a beautiful blonde walked in.

"vice president"

  John Chambers looked at his secretary and asked, "What's the matter? Anne"

   The beautiful blonde secretary said, "Mr. Wang just called and said that he asked the vice president to go to the chairman's office."

  John Chambers: "Anything else?"

  Annie shook her head and said, "No, Mr. Wang just asked you to go there as soon as possible."

  John Chambers waved his hand and said, "Okay, I know, you can go down and do your work first."

   After the beautiful blonde secretary went down, John Chambers leaned back in his office chair, thinking about what to do with the new boss he met for a while.

   To be honest, he didn’t want to leave Wang An Computer just like this, and he didn’t want to be demoted or reduced his salary. As for the reason, it was naturally the big backer behind Wang An Computer.

   He has been in charge of sales in Asia for the past two years, so he is naturally very familiar with Yang Chen's new boss. The terrifying growth rate of his wealth has made countless rich people unmatched.

   Of course, it also leaves a wage earner like him out of reach.

   He has understood the hiring standards of Yang's consortium. The capable go up, the weak go down, the typical law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, is no different from those big consortiums.

   In short, if you can bring me benefits, then everything in power and status can be given to you. If not, then don’t waste your time, and hurry up and get out.

   Don't even think about it, especially the management.

   In a company, anyone can be lazy, but the management can't. Once the management is lazy and incompetent, the company is almost finished.

   Boss Yang has always only looked at the results, and did not ask about the employment standards of the process, which makes the Yang consortium very aggressive in some aspects, especially in sales, which fully reflects this standard.

   Without delaying too long, John Chambers packed up his mood, left the sales department and went to the chairman's office upstairs.

   Whether he can continue to stay in the company depends on which new boss is willing to give him another chance.

  In the chairman's office

   With Yang Chen taking over Wang An Computer Company, the chairman's office has changed its appearance at this time. Yang Chen is not very cold about the old man's preferences. After the people below have carefully cleaned it up, we can barely make our boss Yang a little satisfied.

   Actually, this office is just a decoration. After a while, it is hard to say whether Boss Yang will come here in the future.

   Looking at the drastically changed office, Wang Lie felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Thinking that his father had worked hard for half his life and finally made a wedding dress for others, Wang Lie couldn't help but blame himself for being useless.

  Fortunately, Wang Lie grew up in the United States, and he was not so conservative in his thinking.

   After all, this kind of thing is very common in the United States. One generation starts a business, the second generation has the ability to keep the job, and the second generation can become an idle rich man.

   After more than a year of experience, Wang Lie is also a little open to it. Instead of working diligently and failing in the end, it is better to be a director and feel at ease.

   "Chairman, Vice President John Chambers has arrived."

   "Invite him in!"

   Walking into the office, John Chambers saw that Yang Chen and Wang Lie were making tea inside, and he bent slightly, "Chairman, General Manager".

   "John, come and sit." Wang Lie greeted.

   "Thank you, General Manager." John Chambers glanced at Boss Yang, and seeing that he didn't respond, he walked over to Wang Lie and sat down.

  Wang Lie put the tea he had poured in front of John Chambers and said, "Don't call me the general manager, I'll retire in two days."

  John Chambers didn't answer the call, and Wang Lie's position as general manager was not guaranteed. Everyone knew that if Boss Yang didn't change people, then there was no need to take over Wang An Computer Company.

   Entering from John Chambers, Yang Chen never said a word, because he couldn't understand why the sales of Wang An Computer would decline so much with this great **** in the company.

  John Chambers, this name may not be familiar to many people, but if a company is mentioned, then everyone will understand why Boss Yang called him alone.

Cisco, many people must have heard of this company, a technology company that monopolizes the global routers and switches, its equipment carries 80% of the world's Internet communications, is one of the American technology giants, and once became a Silicon Valley company. The legend of Sino-Singapore economy.

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a couple of faculty members at Stanford University, Leonard Posack, director of the computer center in the computer department, and Santi Lerner, director of the computer center in the business school. People designed networking equipment called "multi-protocol routers" for the Stanford campus network to integrate incompatible computer LANs on campus into a unified network.

  This networking device is considered to be a sign of the real arrival of the networking era. John Chambers’ previous life was in 1991, when Wang An Computer was facing bankruptcy and liquidation. He resigned from Wang An Computer and joined Cisco, which was just listed at that time.

  Since 1996, when John Chambers served as Cisco's CEO, Cisco officially entered its peak.

  John Chambers is a legend in itself, he has a well-known title, the king of mergers and acquisitions.

  In the past 20 years, Cisco has derived the company's business from Internet technology to all walks of life through continuous mergers and acquisitions. Whenever Cisco needs, this big boss will buy if he disagrees.

   That's it. The big guy has turned Cisco from a router company into a technology giant with a market value of $500 billion through non-stop acquisitions.

  After the rise of Cisco, the market of network equipment such as routers and switches for Internet and data transmission is almost controlled by Cisco.

   This person worked in IBM for seven years, and then joined Wang An Computer Company. Now he has become the marketing and sales director of Wang An Computer Company, and has been doing marketing and sales work.

   Next, Wang An Computer needs to change, especially the software defects need to be filled. At this time, the company needs an excellent talent to serve as CEO.

  Although Jobs has agreed to join Wang An Computer, Jobs is not a qualified manager. His main energy and role is still in software development, and sales and company management need another person to cooperate with him.

Yang Chen searched and found John Chambers from the top executives of Wang An Computer. Whether it was Jobs or John Chambers, the two people's philosophy was very consistent, that is, what customers need, they will produce what , what to sell.

  Everything is based on customer needs. This is the philosophy of the two bosses.

   For Boss Yang, John Chambers, as the senior executive of Wang An Computer Company, can largely keep the company stable.

  John Chambers is in charge of sales and company management, and Steve Jobs is in charge of product development. If the two work well together, then Wang An Computer's re-emergence is just around the corner.

   As for the future Cisco company, Yang Chen will not give up. Cisco hasn't been listed yet. When he becomes a shareholder, after the other party goes public, he will send John Chambers over, and then let the other party start Cisco.

   In the later generations, before the tech bubble, Cisco’s market value once reached 500 billion US dollars. He would never let go of such a good opportunity to make money.

   No matter whether the other party is suitable or not, let’s do it for a few years. If you do well, it will naturally be better. If you do not do well, you need to change people.

   Anyway, no matter how good or bad, this man is already doomed to work for him.

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   (end of this chapter)