Is There Anything You Wished You’ve Never Done?
August 2, 2007
About 4 years ago, during an ex-college mate’s wedding reception, my friends and I were seated with some of her previous colleagues and their spouses. Having come from an international accounting firm herself, my college mate’s colleagues were either senior finance managers or financial controllers of large multi-national corporations. High fliers, I would say.
A friend started chatting with one of the spouses. Seriously, I wished he had never started it because throughout the conversation, the spouse was haughtily bragging about his corporate profile. How many people there were in his department. How much turnover his company generate every year etc.
But he was stumped by one question. Read more
