RULE 4

Don’t judge a book by its cover

Many years ago now, when I was in my early twenties, the boss I was working for left. He was replaced by a new boss, Mike, who I just couldn’t get on with. He wasn’t good at the job either, as far as I could see. After a few weeks I went to his line manager and complained that I couldn’t work with him. At which point I discovered that he’d already been to say exactly the same thing about me. The line manager hauled us both in and banged our heads together,* quite rightly. And Mike and I ended up agreeing to start again from scratch.

I have to say, to Mike’s credit, that he really did start over, and so did I. And you know what? It turned out that he was a lovely guy, with a great sense of humour. I was ...

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