1. Errors determine win or lose
Many years ago, Wu Jun, the author of "Top of the Wave," wrote an article to the effect of the difference between professional and amateur.
Wu Jun has a daughter who likes to play golf, but once participated in a competition and did not get very good results. The daughter was a little discouraged, so Wu Jun wrote her a family letter, telling her how to do something professionally.
The daughter’s golf coach is Jeff, a former professional golfer. The quality of his playing is that, throughout the game, he may not have played a very good shot, such as a hole in one. But Jeff can make almost no mistakes in the whole game, that is, play stable, playing a dozen holes, and playing a hole is not much different.
As for amateur players, there are usually only a few good shots in a dozen holes. However, if you make a mistake, you will have to use several strokes to make up for it. If you add up to a dozen holes, you will lose quite horribly (the same is true for stocks).
In "War of Inheritance", in terms of mentality and degree of tossing, several juniors are no less than the big Boss Logan, but in the end why none of them succeeded? The answer lies in too many mistakes.
Especially Kendall, the future heir of this media empire, couldn't control his own temperament on the eve of two major events, and all of them were defeated.
In the case of no confidence in the board of directors, in order to win one of the swing votes, he went to Long Island to visit on the eve of the voting and finally missed the entire board meeting.
As the leader of the recall proposal, he did not appear on the scene, and the remote expression also weakened the persuasiveness of the speech. This was a great blow to the morale of the removal party. The directors present were hardly mobilized. The removal case ended in Kendall's failure. .
Next is the replica "Blood Wedding". After learning the lessons of the last time, Kendall was well prepared this time-persuaded major shareholders and hostile acquirers; prepared enough funds; set up a complicated acquisition plan; carefully selected the timing of the launch-he and his father were not there. At the scene, but he is an insider and can prepare early. The old man was obviously caught off guard, he was preparing poison pills, and he wanted ZF support.
In the end, such a winning battle was ended because Kendall couldn't help taking drugs and was finally charged with manslaughter.
As for other children, mistakes are commonplace.
The boss, Conor, always puts the cart before the horse, doesn't participate in big things, and likes to have a sense of presence in small things.
Roman is doing nothing, all kinds of negligence. The rocket launch was such a big event, he urged others to launch ahead of schedule in vain. After the failure, he learned that there were no dead people, but a few people lost their fingers and arms.
His daughter Shiv seems to have made the fewest mistakes, and may be more entangled in personal issues. However, it also revealed the self-righteous naivety and bad water, especially the use of the cruise ship incident to blackmail Logan and the whole family; the result of a private investigation of Marcia was discovered by him; the ATN TV station, which often used the majesty of the eldest lady, forced his father to put it in the news report. Over their own customers.
On the other hand, does Logan have any great tricks? He neither launched any complicated equity competition, nor did he play any tricks. In fact, he did everything straightforward and rude.
If you don't want Kendall to take over, you just announce "im back"; you don't want to withdraw from the board of directors, you just sit on the voting site and command if you decide; you want to buy a local TV station to further integrate news resources, and you directly put forward your quotation and acquisition plan. Unlike its rival Sandy, it is a shell company acquiring equity, and it is to lure a few small and old rivals.
Logan has basically achieved his goals, and there have been almost no mistakes in these wars. The only mistake may be insufficient preparations for launching a hostile takeover of Kendall. In his eyes, this cowardly daddy boy does not have such courage at all. Fortunately, Kendall tripped himself.
The master showdown is less than who makes mistakes. In the professional arena, basic skills and the like are first brushed in the first round, and amateur players are basically brushed down in this round. Later, let's look at mistakes and stability. If you don’t believe me, look at the top students, do you get the first place every time, while the scumbags may take the first place once or twice. Most of the time, they lie in the first place and sleep a lot, and the final outcome is certain. It is the tail of the crane.
2. Adopting a child or raising Gu?
In the play, Logan's strict standards for his children have almost reached the pinnacle.
On the night of singles, the eldest Conor said to his brothers, Dad said, if you have two fighting dogs, you should send the weakest one away and punish the weakest one, so that people know what it is. Hierarchy.
This hierarchy does not sound like raising children, but raising Gu, which is quite the law of the jungle. All four children were expelled from the house by him.
The play once reminded Logan's childhood-living with his brother, being under the fence, maybe he was beaten badly, and his back was covered with scars. Starting from scratch, having worked in the society for many years has created a media empire. Compared with his ethical brother, the methods are not necessarily very legitimate.
It may be because of the unhappiness of childhood, Logan is jealous of his children's childhood-"Labor and capital have suffered so much to come to this day, and it is all for you little cubs to enjoy." Therefore, Logan has almost nothing to lick the calf in the whole show. The expression of affection may be that Kendall sent Greg to watch before attending the bachelor party, so as not to be killed by drugs.
Faced with such a tiger dad, the children hardly dared to resist, and it was difficult to gain recognition in doing things. The only two who dared to resist were Kendall and Shiv, but the former was trembling, and the latter was not timid. He did not learn well. He learned all kinds of kidnappings and extortion. They did not emphasize procedural justice, and looked forward to the overall situation. No, abandon the original camp and join the camp of the hostile father, in order to achieve "the capital outside of personal strength is equal to zero." How can there be such a stupid person in reality? I don't use the available resources, and I'm abandoning martial arts, and I'm not afraid of Ivanka's jokes.
So Shiv can't count on it. Although as a female character, she will highlight the resistance of a part of the younger generation, and it is already ZZ correct.
The children were almost wiped out in the end. Knowing the child is not the father, everyone's shortcomings and weaknesses are all mastered and used by Logan.
This kind of plot setting may seem unreasonable, and Logan has also been criticized by many people-bossy, obsessed with power, and inhumane (beating grandson). But thinking about it conversely, did Logan deliberately let them discover their weaknesses?
The second generations were originally to protect and considerate Zhongxing Pengyue when they were growing up. People may not tell them where their weaknesses are. As a father, they can't cover these weaknesses. After all, one day they will retreat to the second line. At that time, if the enemy took advantage of these weaknesses, wouldn't the media empire he built with his own hands have died in the second generation?
Third, it is difficult to get a son in a poor family
In addition to the protagonists of the family, the supporting characters of the scraps are also quite exciting.
Marcia-Logan's current wife, tepid, unhappy and indifferent, low-key let Logan join herself as the beneficiary of the family trust, and arrange herself and her ex-husband's son into Roy's company. It seemed that he didn't do anything and was devoted to serving the old man, but it seemed that he had done a lot of things silently. The most terrifying person in the real world is also this kind of person, who reaps a lot of benefits without saying anything, and everything does not fall under the guise of others.
Tom——Shiv’s fiancé, a middle-class man who wanted to make a big splash, but later found himself sitting in the crater, often instructing Greg to do some hard work;
Greg-a family collateral, grandson of Logan's brother Ewan, always thinking about how to climb up the camp, dare not refuse hard work, hesitate to inform and take advantage of the scandal, and Tom is the second general.
Gerri-the first normal (rational) person in the whole show, similar to a CFO or military division? Professional managers. Knowing about the company's business, knowing about various scandals, and knowing all kinds of data, Roy has a huge debt that she told her successor Kendall. Dedicated to their duties, do not interfere with the CEO's decision-making, only provide suggestions.
Stewy-the second normal (rational) person in the whole show, Kendall’s classmate and fan friend, PE investor, contributed to help the family repay the loan, and got most of the equity, became the major shareholder of Roy, but with the family The enemy Sandy has something to do with him. The purpose of life is not to look at friendship, but to look at money.
Lawrence-the third normal (rational) person in the show, a president of the acquired company, asked the Roy family for a board seat, he is cautious and ambitious.
Among these few supporting roles, the portrayal of the second general Huo Ha is particularly successful. The two were born in the middle class, and their mother was a lawyer. They tried hard to curry favor with wealthy daughters, and finally they made a successful marriage proposal and became part of the family. The other is declining collateral, but also trying to flatter.
But the vision and temperament of the two are very wretched, and they always count petty gains. For example, I think the life of a classy person is to go to the VIP box of a nightclub and order a glass of wine for $2,000 for a night, and to participate in the "single (hai) body (tian) (sheng) night (yan)" for the purpose of fooling around. .
During the single night, several second generations are busy looking for giants to discuss business and raise funds. These two people, plus the boss Connor who has not been reused, are paying attention elsewhere. Greg was busy staring at Kendall, Tom and Connor were looking for women everywhere.
People in different circles are mostly concerned about different things on the same occasion. Kendall wants to find someone to hostilely buy shares in Roy, on the condition that he becomes the CEO; even Roman gags and looks like the second generation of idiots is also looking for The opponent talked about merging local TV stations and wanted to fulfill the old father's strategic intentions.
There was a hot post on Tianya that said, "It's hard to get a good son from a poor family." Some of these views have stimulated discussions about the consolidation of the class. Even if the class succeeds in moving upwards, for example, Tom won the wealthy daughter, but his native family still restricts his vision. He is full of brains on how to squeeze into the wealthy, and then order two bowls of soy milk for breakfast, drink one bowl and discard one bowl.
On a single night, the second generation didn't care about women or women. It was commonplace, but he looked for flowers and asked Liu everywhere like a monkey who had never seen the world. As a result, one night passed, Kendall found a hostile acquisition consortium, Stewy got what he wanted to leave, Roman had no results, but at least tried one, and improved some business negotiation experience. Tom only got a joke of swallowing sperm. Greg smashed the high-end goods, and Connor blew a bit of his presence all night.
Although Kendall and Roman are childish, they still go in the direction of being able to do things. Others don't know what they should do. They are immersed in the sense of high-level drunkenness. Fortunately, they are not allowed to bring mobile phones, otherwise they will definitely take pictures and punch in circles.
In Roy's development strategy, these two buddies have always been quite insightful, but they have always been in a low-level position. They are all optimistic about the Internet and fragmented content (similar to official accounts or Internet celebrities, which are traffic business in general). They look down on traditional serious news. They are dissatisfied with Logan's strategy of acquiring local TV stations and believe that it will drag down performance. Logan wants to monopolize journalism.
It was this difference in understanding of the old and new communication theories that triggered the family war.
As a former media person, I can only say that Logan is worthy of being an old hot ginger. Traffic can indeed bring more economic benefits, the report will look good, and the stock price will strengthen. But news is a kind of ZZ power, a kind of discourse power. Whoever masters the news will control the ZZ resources of a country. Is this kind of resource comparable to the economic benefits brought by several Internet celebrities?
This is why Logan will call the current president for support every time he encounters a crisis. Even if he wants to acquire a TV station, he will find the current president to get permission. What ZZ resources are in the hands of a few little boys? They even found the consortium in a mess.
In reality, there are not a few people in the media who have opinions with these little boys, so everyone is keen on using public accounts to play Douyin to drive traffic. If you don't have a few hundred thousand plus official accounts in your hand, you are embarrassed to participate in the media dinner.
But the most precious resources are often priceless, scarce, and invisible to ordinary people.
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