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conclusion

I hope I’m not giving away any major secret here. I’m taking a gamble that any of you who planned to see the movie or read the book The Devil Wears Prada have already done so.

Bottom line: she doesn’t take the promotion.

Andrea, the movie’s Gen Y protagonist, works so very hard to pursue her dream job. She jumps into an industry with which she has little familiarity and with no discernible qualifications. She rises to almost impossible challenges, tackling arduous tasks with ingenuity and boundless energy. She relies in part on the wise coaching of a Boomer colleague and skirts the deep resentment of a Gen X’er who feels passed over. In the end, she succeeds in meeting the extraordinarily exacting standards of her over-the-top, competitive ...