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TRUST AND RESPECT
Tending to Your Shared Egg
They didn’t seem to like each other very much, if at all.
As for trust and respecting one another? What had been a promising partnership between two brilliant minds—where iron could sharpen iron—was quickly becoming a war of iron fighting iron.
As C-suite peers at a global bank, George, the chief information officer, and Tom, the chief financial officer, held positions that required them to work seamlessly together as they led enormous departments within a corporation that employed thousands of people.
George and Tom were both “commercially raised” in their careers, but in wildly different Fortune 50 companies. Both executives were highly valued, beyond ambitious, technically skilled, and overall, ...
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