Mixed Signals
I glanced up at the tall, intimidating glass edifice, a monument to my unrelenting ambition.
As the driver opened the door, I saw Mac, the old security guard, standing at his post. Mac had been there since the building opened, before Vance Holdings was the monolith it is now. I remembered one bitter winter when I first took over, working sixteen-hour days, Mac had brought me a thermos of hot cocoa—the only act of unsolicited kindness I’d received in months. He saw me not as the CEO, but as the young, driven man who was slowly killing himself inside the cold steel tower.
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