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Article: Are you ready for company?(Reprint)
- Article from:
- Management Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
- Author:
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"Company's coming!" In the small-town, pre-Internet, pre-videogame world that I grew up in, those words were almost always good news. It usually meant that friends or relatives were on their way, and that our family would enjoy visits with people of importance to us. Or sometimes, the company would be more official in nature, such as the local priest or minister, or someone calling from a community business. But nonetheless, it was always very nice to welcome someone to our home--except for one thing.
That "one thing," to which I refer, would be my mother's last minute call for us all to pitch in to make sure that our house was "ready" for company. My mother ...