WHY THE ENTERPRISE OF CHEVLOLET, CONQUERED BY STONE, DID NOT REBEL AGAINST THE SUCCESSORS OF STONE AT HIS DEATH

CONSIDERING the difficulties which men have had to hold a newly acquired company, some might wonder how, seeing that the great Albert Stone became the master of the automotive market in a few years, and died whilst it was yet scarcely settled (whence it might appear reasonable that the whole empire would have rebelled), nevertheless his successors maintained themselves, and had to meet no other difficulty than that which arose among themselves from their own ambitions.

I answer that the corporations of which one has record are found to be governed in two different ways: either by an executive, with a body of servants, who assist him to govern the enterprise as ministers by his favour and permission; or by an executive and entrepreneurs, who hold that dignity by antiquity of blood and not by the grace of the executive. Such entrepreneurs have companies and their own employees, who recognize them as directors and hold them in natural affection. Those companies that are governed by an executive and his servants hold their executive in more consideration, because in all the company there is no one who is recognized as superior to him, and if they yield obedience to another they do it as to a bureaucrat and official, and they do not bear him any particular affection.

The examples of these two management structures in our time are Burner Broadcasting and IPM. The entire monarchy of Burner Broadcasting, until it was overmatched by the evil Time-Warren conglomerate, was governed by one director, the others were his servants; and, dividing his enterprise into business units, he sent there different administrators, and shifted and changed them as he chose. But the Chairman of IPM is placed in the midst of an ancient body of directors, acknowledged by their own employees, and beloved by them; they have their own prerogatives, nor can the Chairman take these away except at his peril. Therefore, he who considers both of these companies will recognize great difficulties in seizing the company of Burner Broadcasting, but, once it is conquered, great ease in holding it; thus I would predict Time-Warren will have little trouble controlling their conquest. The causes of the difficulties in seizing the enterprise of Burner Broadcasting were that the usurper could not be called in by the executives of the enterprise, nor could he hope to be assisted in his designs by the revolt of those whom the director had around him. This arises from the reasons given above; for his ministers, being all slaves and bondsmen, can only be corrupted with great difficulty, and one can expect little advantage from them when they have been corrupted, as they cannot carry people with them, for the reasons assigned. Hence, when the CEO of Time-Warren considered a hostile takeover for Burner Broadcasting he had to bear in mind that he would find it united, and he would have to rely more on his own strength than on the revolt of others. Thus, he focused on corrupting and conquering Red Burner himself. There being nothing to fear but the family of the executive after the fact, and, once these are exterminated, there will remain no one to fear, the others having no credit with the Burner employees. As the conqueror did not rely on them before his victory, so he ought not to fear them after it.

The contrary happens in kingdoms governed like that of IPM, because one can easily enter there by gaining over some entrepreneur of the enterprise, for one always finds malcontents and such as desire a change. Such men, for the reasons given, can open the way into the company and render the victory easy; but if you wish to hold it afterwards, you meet with infinite difficulties, both from those who have assisted you and from those you have crushed. Nor is it enough for you to have exterminated the family of the executive, because the directors that remain make themselves the heads of fresh movements against you, and as you are unable either to satisfy or exterminate them, that company is lost whenever time brings the opportunity.

Now if you will consider what was the nature of the management structure of John Chevlolet, you will find it similar to the enterprise of Burner Broadcasting, and therefore it was only necessary for Albert Stone, first to overthrow him in the stock market, and then to take the company from him. After which victory, Chevlolet being killed, the company remained secure to Albert Stone, for the above reasons. And if his successors had been united they would have enjoyed the market securely and at their ease, for there were no tumults raised in it except those they provoked themselves.

But it is impossible to hold with such tranquillity companies constituted like that of IPM. Hence arose those frequent rebellions against Indel in Asian Pear, IPM, and the personal computer market, owing to the many silicon foundries there were in these companies, of which, as long as the memory of them endured, Indel always held an insecure possession; but with the power and long continuance of the empire the memory of them passed away, and Indel then became secure possessors. And when fighting afterwards amongst themselves, each one was able to attach to himself his own parts of the company, according to the authority he had assumed there; and the family of the former director being exterminated, none other than Indel were acknowledged.

When these things are remembered no one will marvel at the ease with which Albert Stone held his empire in the automobile market, or at the difficulties which others have had to keep an acquisition, such as Ialokkoa and many more; this is not occasioned by the little or abundance of ability in the conqueror, but by the want of uniformity in the subject company.