CHAPTER 5

No Time to Lose

Ben was beside himself as he stood in his pajamas staring at the glowing blue screen in the darkness of morning. He hadn’t even had a cup of coffee when he reached for his phone and started checking his e-mails. There was a long chain of notes outlining a major issue in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) region. As he searched back to the original mail, it appeared that the advertising firm the company had hired didn’t deliver exactly as promised on their new campaign. The remaining e-mails were the resulting fallout. It seemed that because Ben was inaccessible, someone had approved the budget for a rework of the problematic campaign. This infuriated Ben, as he felt that given the fact that the responsible party ...

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