[People] rallied around me—literally and figuratively. I got hundreds of e-mails from people I worked with and for; clients and employees and people who had been my bosses . . . that made a huge difference. If the world had gone silent, I would have been devastated.
 
—PATRICIA DUNN, FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, HEWLETT-PACKARD CORPORATION
Chapter Three
PATRICIA DUNN TRIAL BY FIRE
Patricia Dunn’s career was a Cinderella tale in the hard-core world of financial services, rising from humble beginnings to become CEO of the world’s largest institutional investment management firm, Barclays Global Investors. Dunn prided herself on having built impeccable integrity and trustworthiness over the years, until she was ultimately responsible for overseeing ...

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