April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
3h 20m
English
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Chapter 40. GUT CHECK
Three months after the final off-site had ended, Kathryn held her first quarterly two-day staff meeting at a local hotel. The new vice president of marketing, Joseph Charles, had joined DecisionTech a week earlier and was attending his first meeting with the group.
Kathryn kicked off the session by making an announcement that no one was prepared for. "Remember Green Banana? The company that we considered buying last quarter?"
Heads around the table nodded.
"Well, evidently Nick was right about their being a possible competitor. They want to buy us."
Everyone except Jeff, who sat on the board and already knew about the offer, was shocked. No one more so than Nick. "I thought they were in financial trouble?"
"They were," explained ...