Instead, the first person to speak, who looked too young to have been anything except a recent hire, opened with “There are a couple things that I don’t like” and continued on. I felt a little bit sorry for the kid. Flatly contradicting your CEO in public might not be a career-ender, but it would at least serve as a teachable moment for him and the rest of the people in the room. Of course, Halligan wouldn’t respond with anything as obvious as “Watch yourself, youngster,” but would he take the usual approach of making a self-deprecating comment that everyone in the room would implicitly
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