After that night party at Greenwich Manor, Connecticut, the weather quickly became completely cold.

After the four-year big investment, within half a month, some unexplained and strange atmosphere changes appeared in the upper class of the United States. All forces were looking for a sense of existence, either for the sake of budget or for more opportunities to appear, Peanut was so ugly.

In mid-November, it was the first snowfall of the year in Connecticut and New York. The child, who was only half a year old, had just crawled for a while and had never seen anything before. He would feel curious when he passed through the window in the big mansion.

The warm central air conditioning makes children unable to feel the sanctity of winter at all. However, the health care doctor of the Gu family reminds that in order to protect children's eyes, it is best not to let children whose eyes are still developing to see the snow scene.

Of course, Gu Ao followed the advice and decided to leave the east coast and return to the south of Xiangjiang Kingdom to spend this winter. During the Chinese New Year, he would also bring his father, sister, and other relatives to Xiangjiang to reunite, without further description.

"Suizi, Mina, let's set off the day after tomorrow. Stop in California for a few days, I'll deal with some more things, and then we'll go back to China." After dinner one day, Gu Ao showed up with his woman at the dinner table.

Of course no one opposed him.

Gu Ao's private jet is very stable, and children aged 6 or 7 months old can also take a seat. It is time to let the child leave Kangzhou and walk around.

Three days later, Gu Ao rushed to the warm California. After relocating his wife and children, he headed straight to Silicon Valley and met his capable soldiers.

...

Santa Clara County Government, San Jose City Center, Wang'an Computer Company Headquarters.

Early that morning, the company was cleaned up, and the atmosphere was different from the past. Everyone knew that the leader would come to inspect to celebrate the victory of the first phase after the release of the WPS computer, and announced some important decisions.

As Gu Ao, before returning to China this time, he passed by California to make some arrangements. There was no need to come to Wang'an Computer Company in person. He originally called Shulhoff and John Chambers and just shouted at his house on one phone call.

However, he had promised Chambers that as long as the WPS computer program achieves the standards, he will become a legitimate CEO.

For such a major matter, it is better to be more etiquette and it will also benefit the morale of Wang'an's company and the prestige of Chambers' future management team.

Only then did Gu Ao go to the scene in person without hesitation.

And the Schulhof of Tiankun had to drive 20 kilometers to San Jose to join in the fun and have a away meeting together.

The WPS computer became a hit and the response of continued hot sales was obviously still echoing within the company. When Gu Ao's convoy arrived at the company, he felt the high morale among all the people, and everyone was deeply excited about the future.

"Hello boss."

"Welcome to the boss."

When Gu Ao passed the hall and office area, he could see those Americans, especially whites, who said hello in a low voice and bowed slightly. This was rare in American companies in the 1980s, because it was extremely rare to convince whites to a Chinese.

But who made him Gu Ao?

His deeds of combosing Apple and slashing the rhythm of competitors have spread throughout Wang'an's computer in the past two months.

Everyone knows that although Apple did not gain any benefits in court, in fact, Wang An’s first achievement in this wave of market development is that his boss’s strategic layout is awesome.

Most people here have experienced the trend of dispersed people's hearts in the second half of 1986, and have also seen the headless flies all year round in 1987. Compared with the current prosperity, people who are not blind can compare the gap.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, in the largest conference room of the company, a meeting where everyone in the headquarters and above the company cadres were held on time.

Wang'an Computer had 30,000 to 40,000 employees at its peak - if all factory workers and front-line market maintenance personnel assigned to dealers were included.

However, after the struggles in the second half of the year before and last year, it has been much streamlined, with only more than 20,000 people left, of which the headquarters has six or seven thousand people, so there are three office buildings and one podium in the center of San Jose.

Today's meeting convened all staff members above the supervisor, so the number of participants exceeded 500, filling the company's largest conference rooms. Most of them happened to be at the supervisor level and could only stand, and those above the department managers could ensure that all of them were seated. After all, technology companies have relatively open atmosphere, and rarely hold red tape for meetings, and they would not deliberately match super-large conference rooms with low utilization rates.

Of course, Gu Ao could spend money to rent a hotel outside for an annual meeting, but that was too showy. He appreciated this family atmosphere, a unity brought by the Wang An era, with a slightly Chinese management style.

As for not wanting employees to feel stingy, they even think you are kind and forgetting the sore legs and feet caused by standing in a meeting, Gu Ao felt it was easy to do it.

Just send the year-end red envelope.

If a white American is a boss, sending red envelopes may be considered hypocritical, but there is no problem for Chinese bosses to send red envelopes. American employees also know that this is the boss’s cultural custom and will accept it with pleasure.

Especially Silicon Valley people are very practical. When they see the boss sending all the benefits directly to employees, they will feel that the boss is very down-to-earth, rather than being so arrogant and wasting everyone’s money.

...

The meeting begins on time.

Gu Ao took the microphone and stood on the rostrum.

"It's already December, and there are three weeks left before the Christmas holiday. Today I'm here to give you an annual meeting in advance because I'm going back to China by the end of the year. I'm not the kind of bureaucrat who is arrogant, so I won't say much nonsense.

All dealer orders this month have been implemented. I just read the data this morning, so we can say that this year, the sales answer sheet of 1988 has already achieved results. Everyone has worked hard and achieved sales of 850,000 WPS computers worldwide. I won’t read other indicators. In short, I am proud of you.

You have proved that Wang'an's computer is not bad, but the way to open it is wrong. If you change the leadership method, motivation and goal, you are still the world's top personal computer solution service provider."

Applause, warm applause, Gu Ao reported a number and there was a wave of applause from the heart.

Gu Ao had to pause several times, then raised his hand and pressed it down before he calmed down.

"Today, I announce two decisions. First, I announce a fact: at the end of last year, when the new project was launched, I actually set a bet framework for the project team and the company management team. Today, everything is completed and I will definitely fulfill it.

I announce that COO Mr. John Chambers will be officially promoted to the CEO of the company from now on…”

Then, Gu Ao announced a long list of transfers and rewards.

The authoritative structure left by Wang An and the Kanninghan era was completely reorganized by Gu Ao at this moment, and a wave of much younger executives went to the top, while a larger wave of original middle-level executives, whose performance in new projects was remarkable, was filled into the new vacancies of the executive team.

After a big victory, the job will always be moved when the most smooth time is always the one that opposes will be minimized, so there is no objection throughout the process.

From then on, Wang'an Computer Company was completely dismissed from his surname Wang and changed his surname to Gu.

After announcing the promotion, Gu Ao's next step is to announce the year-end motivation.

Anyway, he doesn't want the company's financial statements to look good, so that outsiders can think of how much net profit the company has. Then, investing in new projects and new research and development will certainly consume part of the book profit, at the same time, it's better to share some cash dividends to employees so that everyone can work hard.

Gu Ao has always preferred to use year-end bonuses rather than equity incentives to control them.

Equity is only used when the company's long-term interests conflict with individual annual KPIs.

Or it is used by a poor company that can't afford cash.

"I announced that all employees of the company can receive at least an indiscriminate Christmas red envelope of $2,000 each, and will be distributed in advance today. In addition, all technical department personnel will be rewarded according to the following algorithm principles... All marketing departments and operation and maintenance departments will be rewarded according to the following algorithm principles..."

Gu Ao waved his hand and actually gave more than 20,000 employees in the company on the spot, spending tens of millions of dollars in benefits. (Of course, at least 70% of the employees only have a guaranteed reward of 2,000 US dollars)

Although each sum of money is just an extra monthly salary for everyone, or even less than that, Gu Ao did not forget to emphasize the total amount in public at the meeting.

Considering that this is a surprise and that other American bosses would not do this, and there is no such thing as "16 wages per year" in this era, so Gu Ao's actions have a very large audio-visual impact.

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"Boss, I will continue to dry well! You're optimistic!"

After the conference, John Chambers was so excited that he was in a state where a farmer could kick out the cattle at home and plow a few acres of land by himself.

It's not easy to finally become CEO.

"Of course I have a new task for you. What's the matter? Have lunch first and chat slowly." Gu Ao suppressed the rhythm, and then asked John Chambers, Schulhoff, and several other executives to have a meal together.

In terms of Tiankun, Schulhof is not only here today, but also several core executives of the technology and product departments. The two sides have a total of more than a dozen people, arranged according to the Chinese round table banquet.

A special piece of bluefin tuna was made at the annual luncheon, weighing about dozens of pounds, and the Japanese chef decomposed it on the spot.

There are also a few rare Da O blue dragons and New Zealand black gold abalones, French gooseneck barnacles, and Lyon oysters;

Of course, Astrakhan's sea sturgeon caviar cannot be missing, one can for each person.

However, these are not the most expensive seafood at the banquet. The most expensive seafood is the Antarctic king crab from Queen Maud and the half-foot-long Antarctic transparent shrimp. It is brought by the Argentinian Antarctic Expedition Station when returning to China, and then transported it to Gu Ao. This kind of thing cannot be solved by money, you must be old friends of people in some countries to eat it.

Of course, Gu Ao's hospitality is not that easy to eat.

After tasting a circle of seafood, Gu Ao put down his knife and fork, took a sip of fennel wine and took a sip of it.

"Everyone thinks that this phased victory that overwhelms Apple today will allow us to stay on the credit book for how long? Or, if Apple completely goes bankrupt, will we rest assured?"
Chapter completed!