the successful career.
I could afford to be generous.
They expected me to write a check.
I didn’t.
You don’t survive for long in corporate hospitality by throwing your own liquid assets at somebody else’s vanity project.
You leverage relationships.
At the time, my firm was negotiating a major three-day executive retreat for an international technology syndicate.
It was one of the largest potential contracts we had ever handled.
The hotel I selected for that retreat was a flagship property in downtown St. Paul—and, conveniently, it belonged to the same
