Before Elite changed his position drastically, the deep resources and connections shown in daily work and the success of the new media operation department had already given Grace a considerable reputation within the company. Otherwise, John Casablanca would not have turned against her because of her status. In addition, Simon Westeros personally came forward this time, Grace's takeover of Elite was very smooth.

Simon revealed her intention to let her take charge of Elite last year. Grace, who had no doubt that a man had the ability to push her up, had considered this matter more than once in private and sent Simon upstairs to rest. In the next hour, Grace began to adjust Elite in an orderly manner based on some previous considerations.

First of all, there are a series of job structure adjustments.

Because it is a non-listed private enterprise and does not have a CEO title, Grace will take the lead in personally as the president of Elite. This time she is the head of the entire Elite Models Management, leading all subsidiaries of the model agency giant worldwide.

Elite had a board of directors before. After Simon's permission, Grace announced the dissolution of the department on the spot. The management will only report directly to shareholders in the future, mainly Apollo Management Company.

In fact, it was just responsible for Simon alone.

The reason why we hold 55% of Elite's shares through Apollo Management is mainly to avoid conflicts 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-Management Relations Law for enterprises to the "Professional Conduct Demonstration Rules" that specifically limit a certain field, such as the lawyer industry, legal restrictions are being carried out to prevent professional entities from representing the interests of both parties at the same time and in actual operations to bring losses to the other party.

Hollywood talent agency companies cannot directly get involved in the production business because they are restricted by relevant federal and California conflicts of interest regulations.

However, most laws have a lot of room for operation during the execution of the law.

Just like the project packaging mechanism created by Michael Orwitz, it is actually bypassing the legal provisions that brokerage companies cannot get involved in the production business in order to obtain more benefits.

The model brokerage industry has very loose restrictions on conflict of interest regulations.

Just like a certain golden retriever real estate developer, he had a model agency, a TV production company, and directly entered the fashion field. To be honest, these three fields are conflicting, and they can bypass it by using a little business method such as hosting and affiliation, at least on the surface it is reproachable.

For Elite, Simon also has this strategy.

He personally took charge of Elite and announced the dissolution of the board of directors. Grace unceremoniously removed the president of the Elite American branch, who was once John Casablanca's confidant, and replaced it with an executive whom he had been with on weekdays. At the same time, he also appointed the head of the Elite advertising planning department who had been promoting before Casablanca.

Grace fine-tuned the department and renamed it as the business planning department.

What seems to be a word change actually means that the field involved in this department will not only be advertising planning, but also event planning similar to the model competitions that Elite has been holding in recent years.

This is also a disguised collection of power and directly holding the right to host the world elite model competition with an increasing influence over the years.

In addition to the fields of advertising and competitions, this department will also engage in TV program production, fashion event planning and other aspects in the future. Grace initially just wanted to start with the advertising business. Now that she has mastered Elite, she can completely reform according to her own ideas.

This is actually imitating another giant in the talent agency industry, IMG (International Management Group).

IMG, which has sports celebrities such as Tiger Woods, focuses on the sports field. In recent years, it has also begun to enter the model brokerage industry, mainly agents for high-end customers. Therefore, the scale of related aspects is far less than that of Elite. However, compared with Elite's only scale but single business but not enterprising, IMG has been constantly trying to break through the core business of its talent agency over the years. It has now expanded its brand to various aspects such as planning consulting, sports training, and TV production.

Because of the huge success of this diversified operation strategy, IMG not only got rid of its dependence on talent agency business, but instead made more big names rely on IMG's resource channels, and at the same time created a huge scale far exceeding Elite.

The most important point is that IMG also gained the right to speak in the field of sports.

Just like Hollywood's C.

If it weren't for the appearance of Simon, the big butterfly, and relying on the project packaging mechanism, Michael Orwitz would have been the number one person in the Hollywood power list in the past few years.

As long as Elite's diversified strategy is successful, the model agent giant can also gain a stronger voice in the fashion field, and is no longer the lowest end of the fashion industry chain at this stage. In order to gain more opportunities for its customers, it has to try every means to win over and please all aspects.

After arranging these things, Grace asked Elite's legal department to start re-developing a contract and transfer a series of model contracts that were originally held directly by John Casablanca to her personal name.

In fact, Grace also hopes to implement the C model, which can avoid internal friction to the greatest extent and bind the interests of all the company's brokers together.

But it is not suitable for this at this stage.

Because C's cross-agent model is essentially a decentralization, it prevents any broker from leaving with a large number of top customers.

If Elite wants to complete a transformation, it will never be decentralized in the short term. For this old model agency that has accumulated over the years of ills, strong centralization is the key to achieving change, which is the prerequisite. Otherwise, any reform measure may be subject to various ruthlessness because the helmsman lacks strong skills.

The result is that nothing can be changed

The meeting ended, it was already twelve o'clock noon. Grace came upstairs and knocked on the door of her office. The reckless and reckless just disappeared. Seeing the three Cindy girls chatting and laughing in the room, she just nodded and said to the man: "Simon, it's already noon. Can you invite you to have lunch?"

Women are born to be good at disguising.

Simon nodded in a cooperative smile, and stood up and said, "Okay."

The three women actually wanted to be together very much, but they felt Grace's faint gaze glance and immediately gave up the idea. The woman's sixth sense was also very sensitive. Karen Muder, who was swept by Grace's gaze, couldn't help but shrink his neck because of guilt and wanted to take the opportunity to say a few words, but Simon and Grace couldn't speak until they left.

The two left Elite headquarters and came to the underground parking lot to get Simon's car. Grace suddenly lost her strong-girl look and couldn't help but lean over and hug Simon's arm, and said curiously: "What's going on with Karen?"

Simon felt Grace's emotion, so he simply took the woman over and placed it on his lap, and said, "I was just two days after Cindy and the others, she broke in."

Grace said, "I will fire her in the afternoon."

Simon wrapped around the woman's waist: "But she asked me to help me plead with her, and I agreed."

Grace raised her face and rubbed Simon's stubble chin, her breathing became a little more rapid, and she whispered: "Then let her go."

Simon lowered his head and kissed the woman's lips, and smiled and said, "Are you so unintentional?"

"You...well, it's my opinion."

In fact, there is still a lot of work to do in the afternoon, but when you are with Simon, Grace has no idea of ​​time. At worst, she can only work overtime in the afternoon and evening.

The two rushed to Simon's Upper East Side apartment, also located next to Fifth Avenue, and did not sit at the dining table until 1:30 p.m.

The butler Angry Davis personally delivered lunch to the two. He noticed Grace's face was bright after being moisturized, and couldn't help but feel a little envious.

Grace glanced at the back of the butler when she left, and said to Simon: "I'll let Karen and Lima come with you tonight?"

Simon slowly cut the black pepper sturgeon from the dish and shook his head, "No, you do your own thing well, don't always arrange these for me, it's not good for your reputation."

Grace nodded.

Actually, I don't care.

In this circle, even Hollywood, and music circles, in order to make the artists under their name stand, many agents are doing things similar to pimping, trying every means to push customers into the arms of wealthy and powerful people.

This is true in any circle.

Otherwise, the most important thing for so many people in the world is a good figure and beautiful face. Why can you get ahead, go to the big-name show, use luxury endorsements, and earn millions of dollars that others can never make in their lifetime? Is it just that you can walk well on the stairs and become more photogenic?

This is not a fairy tale world.

This is the way of the world, there is never anything for no reason.

Perhaps after some things are exposed, some people will be indignant and some people will be disgraced. However, when the storm is over, many things will continue to be repeated, and the outsiders will still not be able to stand it, and the people in the game will still be taken for granted. Of course, some outsiders will also try to make themselves the people in the game and then enjoy this for granted together.

How do you say that sentence?

Survival of the world is the prey of the weak.

In fact, modern society is already very friendly to the weak, at least it will not allow the weak to feel the strict hierarchy that was often killed thousands of years ago. As long as the weak do not try to change the class they are in, they can be safe and stable for the rest of their lives. However, the pyramid of the class has never disappeared. Once some unwilling weak people want to climb up, the cruel laws of the jungle will immediately come to their faces. Break through, look down on all living beings, and can't break through, and be broken into pieces.

Inside the restaurant.

Grace soon took the initiative to mention Elite, who officially took over in the morning. She worked for this model agency for many years. She knew Elite's background and potential better than Simon. She used to be just an ordinary agent and could only do her own duties. Now, she has a complete platform. Whether it is for a career or not to live up to Simon's expectations, she hopes to do the best.

"When John and his team sold most of Elite shares to the private equity fund in Canada, the company's financial situation began to be confused. In recent years, it has become more and more chaotic. You know, this will facilitate some operation. You will definitely not suffer any losses in the future, so I plan to conduct a comprehensive financial review of the company as soon as possible."

Simon agreed: "I would like to say hello to Leon in the afternoon. We can use our own accounting team and do not need to hire a third party."

Grace lowered her head and cut the fish, continuing: "Also, taking advantage of this review, I plan to clean up some people and take back the power of major European and Asian branches. Several European executives have completely regarded several branches there as their own territory in recent years. They are definitely not clean and are easy to find. In addition, I will readjust the rules of sharing between the company and the broker and the client."

Simon recalled the Elite scandal in 1999 and asked: "Who is responsible for the Paris branch?"

"Galard Mali," Grace blurted out skillfully, adding: "This is Linda's ex-husband, what's wrong?"

Linda Ivangolinsta’s ex-husband, Simon didn’t notice before: “Is this person on your cleaning list?”

"Here, I just said he is the one whom John is the direct descendant. If I don't drive him away, I will not be able to take back the power of the Paris branch."

Since that's the case, Simon didn't mention it anymore, thought about it, and said: "Actually, these are all details. What you need to change first is Elite's internal culture, which is very important. As far as I know, the internal atmosphere of Elite is very bad. Many people regard models under the company's name as prey rather than customers. If this is not reversed, something will happen sooner or later."

Most companies have their own corporate culture.

However, many of them are just superficial.

As for Elite, the true corporate culture, from John Casablanca's past style of changing an 18-year-old girl as her wife every few years, you can imagine it, and then the ups and downs are effective. The words of Gaillard Mali in the BBC documentary that triggered public opinion that slept all the youngest young girls participating in the model competition can also show the unscrupulousness within Elite.

Simon also knew that this was the case in the entire circle, and even now he could not change too much.

However, if you are completely unrestrained and have no scruples, perhaps Elite will be in trouble before they can complete their diversified transformation. Since you have already taken over this company and have a big backer like the Westeros system, the chances of Elite's similar scandals are actually very small. However, Simon doesn't want the Westeros system to provide blessings for some rotten things of small fish and shrimps, and the efforts are completely inconsistent with the harvest.

Grace nodded solemnly and looked at Simon with a smile: "What do you do? You don't plan to use Elite to pick up girls?"

Simon said for granted: "There is a very interesting idiom in China, only state officials are allowed to set fires, and people are not allowed to light lamps."

Grace wondered: "Hmm?"

Simon roughly talked about the meaning of this idiom and said, "I am the state official who can set fire. As for those cats, dogs, fish and shrimps, it's right to work hard for me. They light the lamps randomly, but they burned my lamp oil."

Grace bent her lips, but she kept lit her head: "I will help you watch the lamp oil."

"You are my lamp oil too."

"Yeah, hehe, no wonder you have always held the decision of the Victoria's Secret Angel in your own hands."

"I actually have good intentions, do you believe it?"

"Of course, I've seen it a long time ago. Let those girls know that if they want to go to Victoria's Secret TV, they just need to please Westeros alone, and they don't need to please those agents, photographers, management and so on."

"So, I was actually taken advantage of."

"And that's right, you don't actually want those girls to sleep with you all the way."

"Well, don't say it out loud. In the future, you can only say the flattering words just now in front of me."

"Actually, Qusi and the others are very grateful to you. They are just the title of Westeros lover. They have never encountered harassment in the past year. You know, even Cindy and the others can't avoid such things. I wonder how many girls want to get the treatment of Qusi and the others, otherwise Cindy wouldn't always come to you."
To be continued...