When a VP at the Talbott Corporation was named by a female employee in a lurid sexual harassment suit, Rodney wrote a speech, approved by Legal, for CEO Thomas Girard to read at the next shareholder meeting. It was a righteous manifesto about caring and corporate responsibility. “I make it a point, once a month, to dip my hand into every complaint box in our headquarters,” Girard said. “And more often than not I come away with compliments.” Only he didn’t say that. Not exactly. Rodney missed the typo, and so did Girard, who stepped before one thousand shareholders in the Grand Ballroom of the
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