The Journey of the Accidental Leader

Epilogue

It had been a year since Sammy read his father’s second letter. Uncle Joe was still doing well. Sammy visited him every weekend to read to him, tell him about how things were going at the company, talk politics, and play checkers.

Sammy and his mother, Ellen, together reconciled the issue of his father’s untimely death and unexplained illness and the fact that they’d both been spared years of grief.

At the company, things had gone far better than Sammy thought they ever would. Vince got married, became a dynamic COO, and trained a new CFO. He was as content as any man alive, which Sammy loved to see. Mary decided to retire after a year of valiantly trying to absorb the culture change. Sammy had hired several new employees who had become ...