“If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.”
—Jack Welch
Truth be told, I didn’t realize it was a sales meeting until it was all over. We were in one of those non-descript-looking conference rooms—long table, Aeron chairs, and a lot of very serious-looking people, most of whom I didn’t know. They asked a lot of questions. Where were we based? How many people did we have? How would our platform operate on a large scale?
I looked around the room. They were nodding at each other, trading messages through thin air. But which way was the ...
