CHAPTER ELEVEN
DAMAGE
Friday, June 29, 9:12 a.m.…
“You’re recommending that we shut down the entire business for how many days?” Carl Williams did not conceal his incredulity.
“Not the entire business,” said Barton, “just parts of it, for three or four days total, which, if we did it on a weekend, interrupts the business only a couple of days. And I’m not yet saying we should do it. It’s one of several options already identified.” Barton wondered if he’d been too forthcoming in laying out for Williams everything known about the event so far. Wrong way to brief the CEO, thought Barton, or this CEO, anyway. He made a mental note. He hadn’t had much time to think through the finer points of how he’d present to Williams, who had yanked him out of ...
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