When I met Victoria, she was wearing a black-and-white houndstooth check coat. Her lipstick, fingernails, handbag, and stilettos were all the same shade of bright red. Through long, dark lashes she made direct eye contact. She told me that she was the chief financial officer of a Bay Area technology startup “that was in a tight financial state.” Personnel had been notified that “there would be layoffs” and that the “company may have to close its doors forever.”
Victoria had just returned from Hong Kong, where she had met with business school ...
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