Henry,how do you like our new CEO,Mr.Black?
His coming is an auspicious omen.I think he is the very man to help our company.
Do you agree?
That's true.I think he will find his own style of management
to be different from our former leader,David Smtih.
Mr.Black is appointed by board.
I guess they have their own good reasons.
You are right.He has quite impressive credentals:
he graduated from Yale University with an MBA degree.
Moreover,he has rich experience with major international companies
and peculiar style of management.
Could you tell me in great detail?
Mrs.Johnson says that he runs the company just like he runs his family,
his interest lies in how much contribution he has made to the society
and his employees.
That's great!Mr.Smith only knows how to drive us to work as long as we can.
I even had the whim to leave our company at that time.Now..
Now,we have the leisure time to enjoy ourselves.
Young as he is,he has strong drive and determination to change our positon.
Could you remember what he has said at the first meeting?
Sure.He said we would spare no effort to promote the interests of our customers,
stockholders and employees and change our company into one of the 500
top companies in the world.
With his leadership,maybe our stock will increase in value rapidly.
Could you guess how much he can earn each year?
He must earn much more money than us!
Yes.It's believed that he is given a million dollars as a bonus
and an annual salary of 1 million dollars.
My God!I will strive to be a CEO too.
Supplementary Reading
Mister imagination
There were very few places in the world that Jules Verne,
the writer,did not visit.
He went round the world a hundred times or more.
Once he did it in eighty days,unheard of in the nineteenth century.
He voyaged sixty thousand miles under the sea,
toured around the moon,explored the center of the earth,
and chatted with natives in Australia.
Jules Verne,the man,was a stay-at-home.
He was more likely to be tired from writing than from traviling.
He did make a few visits to Europe and North Africa.
And he made one six-week tour of New York State.
But that was all.
He spent less than one of his seventy-seven years really traveling.
Yet he was the world's most extraordinary tourist.
His books are crowded with hunting and fishing expeditions.
Jules actually went hunting only once.
Then he raised his gun and shot off the guard's hat!
He never held a test tube in his hand.
But he was an inspiration to the scientist in the laboratory.
Long before radio was invented,he had TV working in his books.
His name for it was phono-telephoto.
He had helicopters fifty years
before the Wright brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk.
In fact,there were few wonders of the twentieth century
that this man of the nuneteenth century did not foresee.
In his stories you can read about neon lights,moving sidewalks,
air conditioning,skyscrapers,guided missiles,tanks,
electrically operated submarines,and airplanes.
Many people took his ideas seriously.
One reason was that he wrote about these wonderful things in such exact detail.
Learned men would argue with him.
Experts in mathematics would spend weeks checking his figures.
When his book about going the moon was published,
five hundred persons volunteered for the next expedition.
perhaps the best known of all his books is Around the World in Eighty Days.
It first appeared as a serial in a paris newspaper.
Its hero had made a bet that he could circle the globe in eighty days,
and his progress aroused great interest.
In every country of Europe people made bets on whether the imaginary Mr.Fogg
would arrive in London in time to win his bet.
Verne kept the popular interest alive.
His hero rescued a widow from death and fell in love with her.
He was attacked by Indians while crossing the American plains.
Arriving in New York,he saw the ship that was to take him to England
disappearing over the horizon without him.
All the steamship companies offered Verne large sums of money
if he would put Fogg on one of their ships.
The author refused.Instead,he had Fogg charter a ship.
As the world held its breath.
Fogg reached London with only minutes to spare.
Many of Verne's other books were set in the future.
In these stories,
people made diamonds and developed a kind of automobile-ship-helicopter-plane.
They received news flashes on televisions,worked in giant skyscrapers,
and rode to work on highways much like the ones we ride today.
It is hard to believe that the books were written nearly one hundred years ago.
Jules Verne had lived to see many of his fancies come true.
But this had not surprised him,for he had once said:
"What one man can imagine,another man can do."
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