How did Rockefeller manage talent well?

Speaking of the business professionals and management elites who gathered around Rockefeller, the first one to mention is Andrews.

Since the discovery of oil in the United States in the mid-17th century, there has been a wave of oil-seeking craze. The keen Rockefeller also realized that oil development was an investment field with commercial value. At that time, because no one was studying how to refine and utilize oil, Rockefeller was hesitant to enter this field.

At this time, the Andrews couple who immigrated from England became Rockefeller's lucky star. Andrews is a chemist who has worked on oil shale. When he heard that oil had been found, he had an intuition: this liquid must be valuable for development. As a result, Andrews became the earliest pioneer in petroleum refining experiments in the United States. He was full of confidence in the future of oil development, believing that oil refined from crude oil could definitely replace coal liquefied oil, and first created a process for refining oil with sulfurous acid gas.

Under Andrews' first-hand design and operation, this refinery successively decomposed gasoline, benzene, kerosene and other new products. In January 1870, the Ohio Standard Oil Company founded by Rockefeller was established with total assets of US$1 million.

Among Rockefeller's senior executives, Henry Flagler had outstanding achievements.

Flagler was also optimistic about the new oil industry. Finally, he joined Rockefeller's oil company with an investment of US$60,000 and liquid assets of US$90,000, and became Rockefeller's business and business partner. One of my best friends outside of business.

Pastor Gates came from a humble background and received a Spartan education since childhood. He negotiated with Rockefeller for the University of Chicago at a national religious gathering. Gates, who was quick-thinking, insightful and energetic, left a deep impression on Rockefeller. Soon, the 38-year-old pastor became Rockefeller's chief almsman and a key figure in Rockefeller's later career.

Rockefeller discovered from Gates' successful arrangements that his business talents would be useful, so he entrusted Gates with full authority over his personal financial management. Rockefeller had so many personal investment projects that in the end he was not sure how much assets he had. As a result, Gates was given full authority to manage philanthropy and personal investment matters.

Soon, Gates investigated all of Rockefeller's personal investment projects and rescued 13 of his 20 troubled projects, consolidating the Rockefeller family's ownership of the companies in which they invested. . It was Gates who opened up huge financial resources for this prominent family.

Rockefeller spent his entire life selecting and managing talents, and it was these outstanding talents who created what can be called the best conglomerate and the most lucrative profits in the world.

When Rockefeller first started his business, he founded an agency company in partnership with Maurice Clark, an Englishman who was 12 years older than him. At that time, the two of them invested US$2,000 each, and in the first year they sold US$450,000 worth of goods, making a huge profit. With the outbreak of the American Civil War, the two of them hoarded money and made a fortune from the war. This entrepreneurial experience laid the initial capital foundation for Rockefeller's future shift to the oil field.

In the first two years since the establishment of the company, Clark and Rockefeller divided their labor and cooperated. Clark worked as the "outside", dealing with customers and commissioned goods; Rockefeller spent most of his time as the "inside", operating accounts and In terms of business funds, the two of them cooperated quite well. Clark once praised Rockefeller's seriousness, saying that he was "methodical to the extreme, often calculating numbers to the third decimal place."

But Clark relied on his age and had been in the business for a long time. He always regarded himself as the "big brother" and always taught Rockefeller a lesson about his ignorance of the world. Faced with his smug look, Rockefeller didn't take it seriously and did his best to run their company well.

Just when Rockefeller was leading his company into the oil field and preparing to make great achievements, he and his partner Clark had operational conflicts. Although Clark is still dedicated to the company's business, Clark is often hesitant at critical moments when major decisions need to be made in business, especially big business. This recurring hesitant attitude delayed many good trading opportunities and made Rockefeller, who had always been calm and patient, very angry. The two of them had increasingly frequent disputes over decision-making, and sometimes even reached a stalemate.

The conflict between Rockefeller and Clark finally broke out over the expansion of investment in the oil industry. Rockefeller wanted to invest $12,000 from the company, but Clark thought it was a joke on the company's fate and firmly disagreed. At this time, Rockefeller further recognized Clark's indecisive character and believed that he was not suitable as a long-term partner.

In 1865, Rockefeller finally made up his mind to compete with Clark for control of the company through an internal auction. In the end, Rockefeller won the battle for US$72,500 and obtained the company's independent management rights.

This decision was regarded by Rockefeller as the biggest decision he had ever made in his life. It was this decision that changed Rockefeller's life's career and made his partners unite most closely around him. The huge battleship of the Rockefeller family sailed into the world's commercial sea and worked together to fight against the stormy waves.

Rockefeller made countless enemies in his life, and there was an irreconcilable contradiction between them - a conflict of interests. But Rockefeller, who was extremely smart and far-sighted, was good at taking advantage of this contradiction, constantly absorbing the most viable and competitive people from hostile forces into his own camp for his own use. Among the core leadership of the Rockefeller empire, you can see many such strong men who first became enemies and then became superior soldiers. Moreover, this lineup continues to expand as Mobil Oil expands.

Among this group of strongest opponents, the most legendary was Agee Porter, who succeeded Mobil Oil as the second chairman of the board after Rockefeller retired.

When many small producers were at a loss, Ajibote proposed a countermeasure - the Great Blockade. He planned to form a producers' alliance and form a self-defense force to restrict the supply of crude oil to the Rockefeller Group. At the same time, he also printed 30,000 leaflets and sent them to federal legislators and state courts in Washington. For a time, public opinion was in an uproar, and people from all walks of life accused Rockefeller of being cruel and ruthless, regardless of people's life and death. Under heavy pressure, the Southern Development Company aborted before it was even established. Rockefeller experienced his first major defeat and also encountered his first powerful enemy.

At this time, Rockefeller began to gradually contact this young man. At the same time, he also adopted various strategies to divide and disrupt the small oil producers who had formed an alliance. He purchased crude oil at high prices, broke their blockade plan, and disintegrated the oil producers. The Producers Alliance's defense line also drew Aggie Porter into its own camp.

Aggie Porter established a new company called Acme, and began to acquire the stocks of operators in similar industries with the authority of having led the Producers Alliance. He also gradually began to speak for Rockefeller and instigated the dissolution of the Producers' Alliance. However, many small producers did not know that the equity of Acme was in the hands of Rockefeller. Finally, Aggie Porter helped Rockefeller achieve world domination.

Aggie Porter also made many suggestions for the Rockefeller family's monopoly business. He once suggested stopping the transportation of oil produced in Maging County. Magong County is a new oil field, but it is relatively remote and relies on Mobil Oil Company's oil pipelines to transport crude oil. And once it stops transporting the crude oil it produces, it will have to close its doors. As a result, Maging County had to give up laying new oil pipelines and continue to accept the exploitation of the Rockefeller Group.

As Rockefeller moved from mergers to industry monopolies, and finally to the establishment of a huge trust organization, Aggie Porter, who provided tips and tricks, gradually became a rising star in the management of Mobil Oil Company and won Rockefeller's trust. . After Rockefeller retired, he appointed Agee Porter as his second chairman to lead the further expansion of his vast empire.

According to Rockefeller's suggestion, Dodd concocted the "Trust Agreement" in 1882, and the Standard Oil Company was reorganized into the "Mobil Trust", allowing Rockefeller to use a trust to cover up his blatant monopoly. After the reorganization, Mobil Oil Company attracted more than 60 companies, 40 of which were entirely owned by the Mobil Trust, and the majority of the other 26 companies were also in the hands of Mobil. The trust system successfully prevented the outside world from investigating and exposing it. It not only enabled Rockefeller to realize the 10-year monopoly blueprint carefully outlined, but also changed the development history of capitalist society and formed a unique era of trust monopoly in American history. Dodd played an important role in this.

The same figure is New York State Congressman Hepburn, who launched a large-scale investigation of Mobil. It was precisely because of his talents in this investigation that he attracted Rockefeller's attention and became Rockefeller's property manager.

It was precisely because Rockefeller kept casting his sights on hostile camps that he was able to recruit talents from all over the world and seek hegemony.

In Rockefeller's empire, there was the most perfect talent agency in the United States at that time. Each of them has its own characteristics and can be unique.

William is amiable and calm; Flagler is brave and good at fighting; Ajibote is both wise and brave; the newly joined Henry Rochas has a unique vision and is omnipotent...