Margaret Peake’s Office, 10 Years Earlier
Margaret Peake is wearing a classic gray dress suit with a white blouse. Carl Ritchie is sporting a suit with an ultramodern cut and a black pullover but no tie, accentuating the obvious age difference between the pair.
Margaret PEAKE: I’m sorry, Mr. Ritchie, but you’re not within the price range that I had envisaged for this deal.
Carl RITCHIE (with irritation): And just how did you draw up that price range?
Margaret PEAKE (self-confidently): I applied a new customized business budgeting method that has been shown to work well at various Wall Street–listed corporations. I learned about it at a seminar for senior executives that I attended at Harvard Business School.
Carl RITCHIE (skeptically): Hmm. I’ve ...
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