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After hearing Ji Sheng's opinion, Darren Woods asked for specific advice on how to implement it.

Ji Sheng knows everything and talks endlessly, such as paying a certain TV station to live broadcast the process of cleaning oil 24 hours a day.

Another example is the establishment of an environmental protection charity fund with several environmental protection organizations. Anyway, the beautiful country can avoid taxes by doing charity, so we should use part of the tax money to form this environmental protection fund. An explanation.

Darren Woods, Barkley, and Aignan immediately apologized after listening to Ji Sheng's series of suggestions, and then drove back to Exxon's headquarters to hold an emergency board meeting.

Now that Exxon has not merged with Mobil, the headquarters is in New York, and it didn't take too long for Darren Woods, Barkley and Aignan to rush there.

Exxon headquarters.

Ten independent directors and three internal directors of the company were present, and there is no need to explain the internal directors. The independent directors refer to independent directors who are independent from the company’s shareholders and no longer hold positions in the company, and have no important business contacts with the company or the company’s managers. Directors who are professionally connected and exercise independent judgment on corporate matters.

The composition of the board of directors of a large company in the beautiful country is usually only two or three internal directors, most of which are external directors, and the few internal directors are often professional managers.

Although it seems that almost all directors do not need to own company shares, and some are even operators of other enterprises, this does not affect their exercise of the rights of directors, nor does it affect the shareholders of the company standing behind the directors. Shareholders use the directors they have introduced to compete for the company's proxy rights.

In other words, the board of directors of Pretty Country is often divided into two or more factions.

That was the case with Exxon.

Barkley and Aignan are among the independent directors of Exxon launched by the capital behind them, and Darren Woods, as an internal director of the company, is also a member of the faction of State Street Bank and Vanguard Group.

But now they are at a disadvantage within Exxon, because the board members recommended by their competitor Black Rock Group temporarily control the company's agency rights.

The board is going on.

Darren Woods repeated Ji Sheng's proposal just now.

Chairman Lawrence said in a cold tone: "The company has already made a decision on this matter, so there is no need to discuss it."

Lee Raymond, the director launched by the Black Rock Group, agreed: "I agree with Lyle's opinion."

Lyle is Chairman Lawrence.

The other independent directors did not speak. They knew that this was a struggle between State Street, the joint faction of the Vanguard Group and the Black Rock Group.

Buckley immediately said: "Since the company has made a decision, why did the company lose as much as [-] million in just a few days?"

Aignan fully supports Darren Woods, "I agree with Darren's proposal that an apology should be made to the public immediately, and then a series of remedies should be carried out to save the company."

Lawrence said arbitrarily: "There is no need to discuss it, just let it be."

Darren Woods tried his best to dissuade him again and again, but the faction of the Black Rock Group headed by Lawrence just didn't agree with this plan.

The two sides have even quarreled.

During the period, the board of directors voted, and in the end, under the circumstance that the General Motors Group introduced a director to abstain from voting, the two sides tied six to six.

Events seem to be back to scorching.

Finally, the actions of Lawrence and others angered Darren Woods. He took a deep breath and said, "Chairman, I want to challenge you!"

As soon as this remark came out, the board of directors was in an uproar.

Even the two allies of Barkley and Aignan were shocked. They never thought that Darren Woods would be so decisive and directly challenged Lawrence, the current top leader of the company.

Of course, the challenge of the board of directors does not refer to a fight between two people, but in essence, it is not much different from a fight.

It's a bit like a VAM agreement.

It probably means that one director puts out enough interests to bet against another director, and the losing party is likely to export the company's agency rights, that is, the director's seat.

Needless to say, winning one side, getting one more proxy seat of the company means having more voice on the board of directors.

In particular, Darren Woods still challenged the chairman. If he loses, there is nothing to say. It will be nothing more than a crushing defeat, causing the consortium behind him to lose a board seat. It would be wonderful if he wins. The force behind Len Woods has one more director seat, and the probability of becoming the chairman is even higher!

Obviously, Lawrence didn't expect Darren Woods to be so courageous. At the same time, this challenge also angered him. He narrowed his eyes and said, "You want to challenge me?"

Darren Woods said firmly: "Yes!"

Lawrence smiled angrily, "How do you challenge me?"

Darren Woods looked at the chairman calmly, "At present, the company's losses have reached [-] million US dollars. If we don't do anything, the losses may be even greater. I only need the company to provide [-] million US dollars to cooperate with the public relations plan. I will take the blame and resign immediately!"

"You only need [-] million US dollars to completely suppress this matter? If you can't do it, give up the board seat?" Lawrence laughed and said, "Okay, I agree."

Darren Woods immediately answered, "If I fail, take the blame and resign, what if I succeed?"

Forcing the palace!

Darren Woods is forcing the palace!

Other members of the board of directors have already felt the breath of gold and iron horses fighting each other!

Lawrence sneered: "If you do what you say and the cost is less than [-] million US dollars, then I will resign as chairman!"

"A word is settled!"

"Ah."

The two parties reached a challenger agreement in just a few words, and they still bet on the seats of the board of directors. No one can afford to lose!

……

at the same time.

Ji Sheng is conducting interviews in the "Huajin Capital" company that he has just registered.

He looked at the 37-year-old majestic white male sitting in front of him, "Steve White, graduated from MIT with a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees and a doctorate degree?"

Steve White said: "Yes."

Looking at his profile, Ji Sheng continued, "Ever worked in Berkshire Hathaway?"

"Correct."

"I remember that Buffett's company's salary and benefits are very good. Why did you resign?"

"Because I can't see the hope of promotion. Mr. Buffett's company is a typical family business. His son Howard will become the heir of the company in the future, and I want to control a company!"

Ambitious, this is an ambitious professional manager.

But Ji Sheng likes such ambitious professional managers. Just for this item alone, Steve White gave him a lot of impression points. Ji Sheng decided to test this person, "Well, seeing your resume is very Excellent, I really want you to be the general manager of the company, but I also want to test your ability."

Steve White said, "Please tell me."

Ji Sheng said, "Did you know about the recent Exxon oil spill?"

Steve White nodded, "I know."

Ji Sheng asked: "Then if you were the top person in charge of Exxon, how would you deal with such a thing?"

Steve White laughed, "Actually, I have considered this question before I came to your company for an interview. If I were the chairman of Exxon, I would definitely fly to Prince Bay as soon as possible and let the company investigate The specific circumstances of the accident, and then cooperate with the media, local government and environmental protection organizations to come up with remedial plans as soon as possible, such as cleaning up the oil pollution as soon as possible, apologizing to the public, and if necessary, I will ask the company to take the initiative to provide environmental protection compensation. "

Huh?

I have some skills.

Ji Sheng looked at the person in front of him who was interviewing for the position of general manager of his company quite unexpectedly, and asked with great interest, "Why did you choose to compromise with the media, the public and the local government? Don't you think this is detrimental to the interests of the company?"

"No, I don't think so." Steve White said eloquently: "I personally think that this kind of public relations crisis avoidance is not a good way to deal with it, because the responsibility is always on the company's side. Instead of evading responsibility, it is better to take the initiative If you take responsibility, you may be forgiven by the outside world, and even if the outside world cannot forgive you, at least taking the initiative to take responsibility will not attract the siege of the outside world, but will protect the interests of the company."

Ji Sheng laughed, "I'm very satisfied with your answer. In fact, earlier today, I was also talking with people from Exxon about the handling of the oil spill."

Steve White asked curiously, "How did you tell them?"

While talking, Ji Sheng's cell phone on the interview table rang.

He picked up the phone and said, "Wait a minute."

connected.

Darren Woods' voice came from the other end of the phone, "Ji, are you busy?"

"Hello, Mr. Woods, I'm hosting the interview and I'm not busy." Ji Sheng replied truthfully.

Darren Woods took a deep breath and said, "I convinced the board of directors."

Ji Cheng was stunned for a moment, "Have you convinced them so quickly? Could it be that you have sold your interests?"

"As expected of the person who gave such an excellent public relations plan, he guessed the root of it all at once." Darren Woods said a little nervously: "I have challenged the chairman of the company. If I can't complete this public relations plan, I will be banned Get out, but if you win, Exxon's next chairman... hey, it's me!"

As soon as Ji Sheng heard it, he congratulated and said, "You are definitely the chairman!"

"I hope." Darren Woods was not too confident. "I called you just to tell you that I am going to work hard here. If you want to buy crude oil futures, do it as soon as possible."

Ji Sheng smiled and said, "Mr. Woods, you seem to lack confidence?"

Darren Woods smiled wryly, "It's a bit lacking."

Ji Sheng smiled and said, "I'm much more confident than you. I've already spent $500 million to buy crude oil futures with [-] times leverage."

Well, he didn't say when he bought it. In fact, he had already bought it before the interview with Darren Woods and others. He said that just to give the other party confidence.

Sure enough, Darren Woods was full of surprise when he heard it, and immediately asked: "Are you so confident in this public relations plan?"

Ji Sheng said: "Of course, so Mr. Woods, just let it go, I believe you can successfully become the chairman of Exxon!"

Darren Woods, who was inspired, said proudly: "Okay, I will implement the plan you gave, and you will see it right away."

hang up the phone.

Ji Sheng looked at Steve White, smiled and said, "Congratulations on becoming the general manager of Huajin Capital."

Steve White was overjoyed, "Thank you boss." As he said that, he asked curiously, "Boss, what did you and the Exxon people say?"

Ji Sheng laughed loudly, "You will see it right away, Exxon's next response is the public relations plan I gave!"