MY PERSONAL JOURNEY
On My Way to France
COMING BACK FROM THE TWO-HOUR DRIVE from Rochester after my annual mammogram and still feeling the pain of the needle biopsy that to my good fortune turned out benign—only a five-year reprieve as luck would have it—I attended the patent award dinner, a major corporate event at Corning, during which Rob Stanley, Corning’s CTO, approached me with a simple question: “Would you be interested in an international assignment?” Without hesitation my answer was a resounding “Absolutely!” He stopped short of a discussion and moved on to the next person.
Rob was an experienced technology officer who danced on the floor of corporate executives and boards of directors with ease and who had the strong support of upper ...
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