Shine

CHAPTER FIVE

Grapple and Grow

Lorraine is a trader in a large brokerage firm. She ranks high in productivity, but her record of late has been less than her usual level of excellence. She doesn’t want to talk about it, but she knows Anne, her manager, is aware of the issue because Anne has already made a couple of veiled comments couched as questions, like, “Is everything going well?”

As Lorraine looks back at the months of lowered productivity, ...