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Chapter XVIIIA Day in the Life of …

So what would it be like were you to take the plunge? Just imagine … It is a standard Monday morning in your place of business. Your inbox (electronic or wooden) is overflowing with requests, reports, along with small notes about possibly bright ideas, or eminently bad ones. And every piece of paper, or electronic notation, is only the leading edge of a web of complexity stretching outward in time and space, well beyond your capacity to see or sense.

Financial statements reflect the tremors of the rise and fall of currencies from a country you have never visited, whose culture you know only from newspaper snippets, and whose recent political currents disappear in a swirl of unknown issues and personalities. ...

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