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The Human Constraint
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The Human Constraint

by Angela Montgomery
August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
282 pages
10h 58m
English
Productivity Press
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Chapter 10An Unrefusable Offer

DOI: 10.4324/9781032644288-11

New York, June 21, 2007

The conference room in the TPK Holdings office building smelled of cold air and stale coffee. Sam leaned over the large white table, one hand holding back the scarf tied round his neck against the air conditioning chill, the other hand gripping the back of Lucas’s chair as he watched what he was doing. Lucas’s head was bent beneath his hunched, angular shoulders as he finished scribbling a sentence on a large flip chart sheet laid out on the table. Two more sheets lay across the white surface of the table, filled with a series of numbered phrases written in orange marker pen ink in Lucas’s sprawling handwriting.

Sam tried to calculate in his mind how many times ...

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