Manhattan.

Gisele Bundchen and Alexander Ambroxiu got out of the taxi and walked into the building where they lived, chatting and laughing to the mansion on the top floor, but found that Miranda Kerr had returned and was happily preparing something in the kitchen.

Changing into high heels and glanced at the figure in the kitchen, Giselle couldn't help but curl his lips. This situation was really rare. Alexander even complained: "Can she cooks it?"

"Hey, you're back," Miranda turned her head and greeted the two girls enthusiastically at the sound of the living room.

The two women responded indifferently, and Miranda didn't mind, so she turned her head and continued to be busy.

Eric is coming today, and she made up her mind to show off her well and try to impress Eric and let her go back to Los Angeles.

In March, Eric came to New York. Miranda was full of emotions. She neither wanted to live with Giselle and Alexander, nor did she want to be Cindy Crawford, commissioned by Eric, to watch like a child.

However, afterwards, even though she knew it might be Cindy or Eric who did it on purpose, she was still frightened.

Miranda was unwilling to live with Giselle and Alexander, so Cindy temporarily let her live in her apartment and took good care of her.

However, since you want to be a model, you can't talk about it.

So Cindy took her to the Elite model agency for an interview, and joined dozens of girls collected from all over North America by Elite scouts.

Since Cindy took her to her personally, she noticed that the dozens of girls looked at Cindy like a queen. She felt quite proud in her heart, and she would definitely be able to easily reach Cindy's status in the future.

Maybe it was Cindy's reason. During the waiting process, many girls deliberately chatted with her. Some people also recognized her as one of the four tennis girls in "007 Casino Royale". They also showed up in a TV series on Disney Channel, so they asked her why she came to Elite for a model interview.

Naturally, Miranda could not say that she was rushed to New York because she annoyed Eric, so she proudly stated that she was not interested in acting and wanted to try the profession of modeling.

Then she felt some girls looking at her like idiots, and another girl said half-jokingly, "I have only heard of trying to be an actor model."

Of course Miranda knew the truth, but she couldn't show it on her face, so she was naturally depressed.

After taking photos with a group of girls, she tried to walk on the styling style for most of the day, but in the end she received some "special" treatment. Manager Elite, who participated in the interview, personally explained the interview results to her: she was low in height, had no three-dimensional face, had ordinary stance, had not experienced vocational training, and her overall qualifications did not have the potential for high-fashion models, and could only take the pure commercial model route.

Before the Victoria's Secret show appeared, if you want to reach the level of a supermodel, you must first be able to gain recognition from high-street fashion brands such as Prada, Tiffany, and Chanel. Only by reaching cooperation with these brands and improving your own style can you further gain recognition from the fashion circle and step by step to the status of a sought-after supermodel.

However, Miranda's appearance, height and qualifications are basically out of reach for high street fashion.

This means that without any background opportunities, Miranda will never be a supermodel in her life, and can only be an ordinary commercial model. In fact, it is the kind of clothing display, print advertising, auto show, etc. that can be done but basically no chance to stand out. Of course, commercial models are not impossible to achieve the ultimate, Cindy is just one. Moreover, although it has been twenty years apart in the original time and space, the trajectory of Cindy and Miranda is almost exactly the same.

Given Miranda's situation, Elite can only give her a training contract similar to an intern, with the company providing accommodation, a fixed salary of US$1,000 per month. After signing the contract, Miranda must receive regular training from Elite and complete the work provided by the company.

Miranda was even more angry at the time, realizing that this might have been intentional by Cindy or Eric, the girl also developed a rebellious mentality.

OK, what do you say, then what do you want.

After signing the contract readily, Cindy and Elite's agent took her to the place where she might work in the future. For example, one stop is a one-day auto show, changing dozens of clothes every day to the fitting scene where she was crying, and living props in the new season of "Pretty Overpass" that are being recorded...

In the evening, when Cindy and Elite's agent took Miranda to the West Village of Manhattan and saw that she was living in an old small apartment with less than 60 square meters with seven other girls who were not much worse than her, Miranda finally collapsed.

He was taken home and slept for a night. The next day, Miranda didn't mention Elite's work again, and Cindy didn't mention it anymore, as if nothing had happened yesterday.

After breakfast, Cindy took Miranda to her IMG model agency, took out the contract she had prepared, signed the girl to her name in the same agent. Then she helped her move to the apartment of Giselle and Alexander.

Due to age restrictions, Miranda cannot get too much work now. In the past few months, Cindy has not treated her as a child at all and often takes her with her. After listening and watching too much, Miranda feels that in the lounge waiting for the interview, the girls looked at her with the eyes of her. If possible, she herself wanted to look at herself with an idiot.

Therefore, when she heard from Cindy that Eric would come today, the girl rushed back to the apartment, hoping to please Eric and return to Los Angeles by herself. Anyway, she is no longer interested in being a model now.

After a week off in East Hampton and coming to Manhattan, Eric faced the first internal personnel issues of the ABC Group.

This problem has nothing to do with internal struggles, layoffs, etc., but it is also quite tricky. As the ABC Group has become stronger and stronger in recent years, companies have naturally become interested in the management of the ABC Group. After all, even if Eric can come up with countless wonderful ideas, if there is no excellent management team to execute, Firefly Group will not be able to develop so rapidly.

The one who wants to make a corner is Comcast, and the target is Steve Bernstein, CEO of ESPN TV.

After signing a huge broadcasting rights contract with the NFL, ESPN's operating conditions were not dragged down at all, but became more and more popular. With the increase in cable TV share and advertising revenue, ESPN TV will provide the entire group with more than $500 million in net profit this year.

In the past decade, Steve Bernstein has been in charge of ESPN TV, which once had less than 300,000 users to the largest basic cable channel in North America with more than 90 million users.

In any company, it is necessary to achieve such outstanding results and be promoted. Eric will not let the company's talents be lost like this.

However, the current situation of Firefly Group is that the entire management system is very stable.

Under Eric, Carsonberg and Frank Wells were in charge of the entire Firefly Group, and were mainly responsible for the group's film, television and entertainment business. In terms of TV business, after Tom Murphy retired, Robert Eiger and Stephen Burke, the veteran ABC minister, respectively, were the CEO and president of ABC Group, respectively, responsible for the TV business of Firefly Group. Further down, there are specific branch leaders, such as Kenneth Horn of New Line Film, Robert Thompson of Bowei Distribution Company, Stan Winston of Digital Field, Anne Sweeney of AE TV Network, Steve Bernstein of ESPN TV, Barry Weiss of Firefly Records, etc.

The various departments and subsidiaries under the leadership of these top executives of these companies have formed the Firefly Group, which has more than 120,000 employees worldwide.

Not to mention the others, according to the achievements made by Steve Bernstein and his current level, if he improves further, he will at least reach the position of ABC president. However, none of the people above him are mediocre talents who can be replaced, and these people will not be able to resign or retire in the short term, which is more embarrassing.

Eric is not a king, so he can't give you an additional position, so he can get you a title. Simply increasing his salary is not very attractive to a manager like Steve Bernstein who wants to gain more room for play.

On the other hand, Comcast's position to Steve Bernstein is also very attractive, COO.

Control of Comcast is still in the hands of founder Ralph Roberts and his son Ralph Roberts, who serve as chairman and CEO of the company respectively.

Steve Bernstein's position as chief operating officer is equivalent to that of the president of Comcast Group. He is directly responsible to CEO Roberts and his son, and controls the operation of the entire Comcast cable TV network. Although it cannot be considered a monopoly, Comcast, which is in a period of rapid growth, has much more room for playing than ESPN TV stations that have almost developed to the extreme.

Firefly does not have the position of COO. According to management authority, the functions of COO are handled by Carsonberg and Frank Wells respectively.

Eric could not have suddenly established such a similar position in order to retain Steve Bernstein. The stability of the Firefly Group's management system means that the power distribution is in a very harmonious balance. Depriving power from the original manager and giving another brand new manager will only cause the original management system to be imbalanced.

However, if you look at the entire Firefly system, there may be a position that is about to be vacant for Steve Bernstein, that is, AOL. With the management skills shown by Steve Bernstein, they are competent for the CEO of AOL. The two companies also have many similarities, and there is no situation where they are separated by a mountain.

In fact, most of the giant corporate managers in the United States cannot be considered "professional counterparts". When the company is large enough to a certain extent, the requirements for managers are no longer professional skills, but a person's management philosophy.

Of course, everything has not yet been settled. Whether it can bring back control of A. Online from Steve Case's team is still an unknown. But in order to avoid Steve Bernstein being poached, Eric still has to stabilize the other party in advance.

At the ABC headquarters in the Upper West Side, it is almost time to get off work. Eric and Steve Bernstein, who came from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, had been chatting for an afternoon.

Steve Bernstein was already excited about the position offered by Comcast, but at the same time he was looking forward to controlling the emerging Internet technology company, an emerging Internet technology company with a more rapid upward momentum. Therefore, the two discussed in detail, and Eric's setting of the future development direction of Aike was also recognized by Steve Bernstein.

Finally, Steve Bernstein said: "Eric, since that's the case, I can wait a month before replying to Comcast. However, if you can't gain control of the United States Online, I'm afraid I'll have to formally submit my resignation letter."

Eric nodded, saying everything he could say, and if he couldn't keep it, there was nothing he could do about it. But he couldn't help saying, "Actually, Steve, even if this failed, if you are willing to wait for another two years, I can guarantee that Firefly is destined to acquire a telecom operator, and I can still leave it to you to manage."

Steve Bernstein smiled and shook his head gently, saying, "Eric, I am very grateful for your trust in me, and I know that you will definitely succeed in the future. However, it is impossible for me to give up the opportunity in front of me for such a clueless promise."

Eric can only regret that, in fact, with the resignation of Yoma Olila in Nokia, there is also a Nokia president who can be handed over to Steve Bernstein.

However, the span of the two industries of media and telecommunications is a bit too big. Eric did not rashly raise the lessons of Apple hiring John Sculley from beverage companies as CEO, causing the company's decline. What's more, Nokia's headquarters is in Northern Europe, and it is unlikely that Steve Bernstein will accept this position.

After agreeing on these, Eric got up and reached out to Steve Bernstein again: "So, have dinner together, I have someone booked a seat."

"Of course," Steve Bernstein reached out and clenched Eric.

The two greeted several other senior executives at the headquarters, left the ABC headquarters together, and rushed to a top restaurant in Rockefeller Center in the Midtown area for dinner.
Chapter completed!