Boardroom Confidential
No one talks about the ridiculous parts of being a leader.
Or the funny parts. Or the sad parts. Or the lonely parts. (Not to mention the borderline-inappropriate-yet-entertaining parts.)
This collection of stories is my attempt to document a few of those moments that my friends and I have experienced ourselves. Disclaimer: the following stories are real, but all names other than my own have been changed to respect the privacy of those involved.
→ The one where I have diarrhea during my own keynote
→ The one where Rick wakes up on Excalibur’s lawn in Vegas
→ The one where Sam closes a $17M deal at a bar in San Francisco
→ The one where we fire Ian for doing shrooms on the company camping trip
→ The one where Ed runs up a $2,700 dinner on his wife’s credit card
→ The one where the Italian CEO calls me “Fantozzi”
→The one where the company loses $600M due to a bad review on Glassdoor
→ The one where Susan saves her job with Google Sheets
→ The one where we pull the plug on a $20M acquisition
→ The one where we accidentally order 20,000 fidget spinners