Company Man

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The office of the chief executive officer of the Stratton Corporation wasn’t really an office at all. At a quick glance you’d call it a cubicle, but at the Stratton Corporation-which made the elegant silver-mesh fabric panels that served as the walls around the CEO’s brushed-steel Stratton Ergon desk-“cubicle” was a dirty word. You didn’t work in a cubicle in the middle of a cube farm; you multitasked at your “home base” in an “open-plan system.”

Nicholas Conover, Stratton’s CEO, leaned back in his top-of-the-line leather Stratton Symbiosis chair, trying to concentrate on the stream of figures spewing from the mouth of his chief financial officer, Scott McNally, a small, nerdy, self-deprecating guy who had a spooky affinity for numbers. Scott was sardonic and quick-witted, in a dark, sharp-edged way. He was also one of the smartest men Nick had ever met. But there was nothing Nick hated more than budget meetings.

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