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Article: A view from a corporate parachute
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 14, 1988
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Shortly after the small company of which I was a vice president
was sold to a giant corporation a few years ago, our president and
founder took his newly earned fortune and departed. His place was
taken by a man I shall call Martell, a senior executive from
Corporate Headquarters who swiftly introduced us to the big-league
way of doing things.
After that, if you had ever tried to telephone me, you would no
longer have heard me answer my own phone. You would have encountered
my secretary, who would have told you that I was in a meeting.
She would not have been lying. As a Divisional General Manager,
I spent my whole day in meetings. Not only were there many meetings
but, because The ...