In Evan's office, it was not Evan who occupied the desk, but a woman with a graceful back.

She frowned and looked through the documents. She only raised her head when she was unsure of her instructions, looked at the official in the office, and asked for her opinions on handling the matter.

He sat on one side, holding the ear of the porcelain cup in one hand, while looking at the report with a steel stamp on the cover that represented the secret.

"Evan, isn't it okay for the blond hair to be so high?"

"Evan, the microwave oven project team has lost over 100,000 yuan, why do you need to invest more?"

“Evan…”

"Linda, this is what happened..."

Evan refused all Linda's questions, and explained as much as he could clearly explain. He neither hid his own privately nor felt it was troublesome.

Evan has begun to get tired of the endless Wenshan and Wenhai, but these paperworks are inevitable products of a rigorous organization.

As the pinnacle of this organization, Evan couldn't easily decentralize his own paperwork because it was the generation of power.

But after feeling disgusted, Evan decided to start trying to further reduce his burden.

Before this, he had tried his best to decentralize his power. For example, with the general manager of Davidson, Evan's interference in him has been minimized.

But besides Magic Seven, any other Los Angeles-based business would come to Evan from time to time to ask him to express his opinions on certain decisions, or simply push him to make a decision.

Among them, Carl, who was highly anticipated by Evan, is also a virtue, at most it is a little lower frequency.

Evan knew that it was not because these executives were incapable, but because they were there, they dared not be good at it, and some even simply developed habits.

Because every time Evan is asked, he can always give appropriate solutions or suggestions.

Evan decided to make a change.

The first step in the change is to reorganize the top-level structure.

Evan is the ultimate decision maker of the organization, but he cannot make every decision.

Two years ago, Evan convened his senior executives to hold an annual meeting. This year, Evan decided to restart the annual meeting and will give the members more power.

Evan is preparing to form a council as the highest permanent management body of all its companies. At the same time, he will also set up a secretariat dedicated to serving himself.

In Evan's vision, the Secretariat will have considerable power to organize information and reports for Evan, and interfere with the company's operations and decision-making as Evan's instructions.

Linda is Evan's first chief secretary.

Whether it is trust or his own abilities, Evan thinks Linda is the most suitable candidate.

That's why Evan asked Linda to give documents for him.

Just think that it was adapting in advance.

Linda became more and more skilled in her work, but Evan closed the report and showed an expression of distress.

The confidential report sent by Vadak focuses on two things.

One thing is related to Bank of America.

Another thing is related to Xerox.

Speaking of Bank of America, the core bank of California's largest consortium has not been stable recently. In June this year, Gianni, the founder of Bank of America and the core figure of Bank of America, died in his sleep. After the death of the 80-year-old man, his legacy in the consortium was naturally divided and inherited by his children.

Janini has a son and a daughter, and his eldest son Mario took over the position of president of Bank of America, but the board seat of Bank of America fell on Mario's sister Claire Janini Hoffman.

Claire became a bank director, causing an uproar in the banking industry because before that, no woman had ever entered the board of directors of any bank.

The move of the Gianni family shows that it still has enough influence in Bank of America, and on the other hand, it shows that Mario, as the family's first heir, does not have enough ability to control Bank of America alone.

The American Bank Consortium inevitably ushered in a crisis.

In Vadak's report, several people were walking: one, Henry Morgan arrived in San Francisco on December 3, and the next day, JP Morgan Senior Vice President Cherno, checked in the same hotel; two, Chase National Bank sent a working group to arrive in San Francisco on December 5, leading a young man, suspected to be David Rockefeller.

Seeing these names, Evan knew that at least two big knives were sharpening their knives and chopping them up to the head of Bank of America. In this regard, Evan could only watch and worry.

He does not want the American Bank to fall into the hands of the "two giants". Although this has little impact on him at present, it will greatly reduce his space for future development and growth, but for a moment he can't think of any way to avoid this ending.

He could only pray secretly that Mario and Claire, the two siblings, should not be too incompetent.

If Evan had no choice but to say that the crisis of Bank of America was in crisis, then another thing was not something that Evan would not pay attention to.

At the end of April this year, Xerox Company officially launched the Xerox Model A, a photocopier that uses electrostatic copying technology, to the market. After the product was launched, it received a large number of orders.

Just when everyone thought Evan would create another hot product, the market slapped the entire Xerox company in the face.

The copy function provided by Xerox Model A really made many people lit up and placed an order. However, after getting the physical product, its endless failures made customers very annoyed. Although Xerox has formed a relatively complete after-sales service team, the actual user experience still discourages customers, and there are almost few additional follow-up orders.

Model A's performance was unexpected, which put the entire Xerox in trouble, but Evan did not waver his determination. With huge losses, he ordered Carlson to step up the resolution of the failure and develop subsequent products.

In this case, Vadak's report pointed out that two companies have set up special project teams to develop machines with similar copy functions.

Among these two companies, one is RCA, and the application physics company is a head-on competitor in the television field.

Another company is an acquaintance of Evan, a partner of Magic Seven Company since its inception, 3M Company.

According to the information collected by Vadak, in order to avoid Xerox's patent barriers, the two companies proposed different ideas to realize the copying function.

However, Vadak did not get clear information on what specific ideas were.

But this is not important. What Evan is concerned about is that the behavior of RCA and 3M companies shows that the market prospects of copiers have been affirmed.

They want to get a share of the game.

This is definitely bad news for Xerox

The carefully prepared head gun did not start, and Xerox's company was nervous. At this moment, there were competitors entering the market, which was almost a worse injury for Xerox.

As soon as he got the information, Evan decided to do something.

First of all, RCA and 3M cannot easily produce competitive products. The time limit is before Xerox eliminates the negative impact of Model A.

This must be done. If not, even if Xerox can provide stable products later, customers will not choose it because of their criminal record. This is disastrous for Xerox's marketing team, and exponential efforts may not necessarily achieve half of the effect.

Secondly, Xerox must reverse the public impression that the copier is both precious and delicate as soon as possible. Needless to say, advertising is the key to Carlson's R&D team.

However, Evan does not need to put too much pressure on Carlson for the time being. Before the photocopier was released, Evan had disagreements with Carlson about product standards, and in the end Carlson insisted on his opinion. However, the facts proved that Evan's high standards were necessary. Although it is not to say that after-sale repair disasters can be completely avoided according to Evan's requirements, Carlson naturally became the primary responsible person in this matter.

Therefore, in the past six months, Carlson can be said to be facing the biggest crisis and pressure in his life. If he was not a shareholder of Xerox and the inventor of electrostatic copying technology, Evan needed him to lead the R&D team, and Carlson believed that he had been a scapegoat, either being idle or being cleared out of the company.

Faced with this crisis, Carlson regretted it. In order to maintain his current status and wealth, he had to devote himself to the improvement of Model A and the research and development of the next generation of photocopying technology. In order to save communication costs, he moved his laboratory in Sacramento to Los Angeles. He almost moved his laboratory in the laboratory.

The consequence of Carlson's desperate efforts was that in less than three months, his hair turned white and he almost lost weight.

Seeing this, Evan had to force Carlson to rest for a while, while calling his wife Helen Higgins from Sacramento to Los Angeles to take care of his life.

With Helen's care, Carlson quickly returned to his normal routine and recovered his health.

"Now, it's time to add a little burden to him."

"In addition to Carlson's electrostatic copying, there is also one kind of copying technology, which is dry in the entire process of electrostatic copying, and the other is realized with liquid, so it is called wet copying."

"RCA cannot get into loopholes in electrostatic copying technology, so it can only turn to study wet copying."

"I didn't study wet copying at the beginning because the former has more limitations than electrostatic copying. Now, even to disrupt the situation, Xerox should take action."

“You can’t save money at this time…”

"However, Xerox has suffered a lot this year. If you add additional funds, others will probably have opinions... There is no way, so you can only try your best to convince me."

"Well, wait and go to Xerox..."

Evan nodded slightly, made up his mind, looked up at Linda, and asked, "How many more have you not finished reading?"

Linda replied without raising her head: "At least one third."

Evan opened his mouth in surprise. The speed was much faster than himself. He raised his wrist and looked at the time, and said, "It's getting late, let's go have lunch."

"The rest is not in a hurry..."

"After lunch, let's go to Xerox first."

Linda paused and said, "Okay."

After saying that, she covered the pen with the cover and placed it in the pen holder, moving her stiff neck and stretching.

Linda has a good figure and her chest is particularly prominent, which cannot be covered even if she wears a warm sweater.

Evan consciously looked away and waited for Linda to get up and go out after she got up and went out.

...

At the same time, San Francisco, 100 McAllister Street, Imperial Hotel.

The main body of the Imperial Hotel is a 28-story high-rise building with a strong Gothic style. Before the end of World War II, the owner of the building was the federal government's office, with multiple institutions including the Army's ordnance procurement department working here. After the end of World War II, the federal government reduced its spending, the department was abolished, and the building was also sold. The buyer's identity is not known to ordinary people. Soon after, the newly renovated Imperial Hotel opened.

The top floor of the Imperial Hotel has a special Sky Room (SKY Room), with good views and large floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking San Francisco.

At this time, this sky lounge was occupied by a distinguished guest.

He was wearing a well-fitting pure black handmade custom suit, perfectly showing his tall figure, wearing an ordinary mechanical watch on his left hand, without any decoration.

He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, holding a high-heeled wine glass in his right hand, which contained one-third of the red wine, looking graceful.

If Evan is here, he will find that this person has seventy-sixth-sixth-similar faces to someone he knows.

The man Evan knew was Francis, who was the one who handled the loan when he talked with JP Morgan.
To be continued...