BEYOND THE BOARDROOM

on a major new product launch that has needed numerous late gloamings in the quiet, empty office. By 10

precious suit gets decreasingly wrinkled as the night wears on and his perfectly trolled hair starts to loosen and fall across his forepart. The sick circles under Mr. Greene's eyes make him feel aged and more vulnerable. Kat

tone, he describes growing up impoverished in a confined, run- down apartment on the rougher side of the megacity. His mama worked endlessly just to put food

smates had new toys, boxes, bikes. How Mr. Greene's restless growling stomach made it insolvable to concentrate in class, fueling his determination to escape poverty and no way be empty again. The ca

Any signs of weakness or emotion brought scolding and sometimes physical discipline from his mama's string of unstable fellows. Crying only made the beatings worse. So youthful

tors pounding on their apartment door, his mama blubbing in her room. The maximum terror of being awakened by her fellows' crapulous enthusiasms. How those nights shaped his untiring drive for wealth

ow hiding any vulnerability came alternate nature as the only way to avoid further pain. Why he pushes people down out of hardwired distrust. He works himself t

atherine tells Mr. Greene that while painful, our histories make us who we are. They shape us but do not define us completely. The hard times he endured handed the provocations and adaptability to make commodity g

Greene has chosen to lower his fences for her and offer this profound regard into what made him the man he is. Rather than judging his vulnerabilities, Kather

riously, motioning his growing respect. He no longer rushes to hide his prostration when they work long hours, allowing himself to be genuinely mortal in front of her. Now and al

a deeper position the complexity of this driven, wounded man. Her desire to nurture the fragile, arising corridor of himself he has kept

t gloamings together, he gradationally reveals further of his humanity and emotionality. With her, he can take off the CEO mask and be vulnerable, as

nds Mr. Greene is still learning to trust again after so numerous backstabbing and losses. This is new terrain

Greene's history into a coherent shade, making sense of the uneven silhouettes of his current tone- both the smooth and the rasped edges. He unearths dreams remitted but not forgotten. Reexamines o

reene to grow and change like this. There are still those who prefer the ruthless CEO whose rough edges drove his grim rise to power. And they may try to undermine what she and

urned with a softer inner light- and sees not an intimidating superintendent, but a fellow rubberneck. Eventually unencumbered by the