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How I got a job working for Gary V.
It was May 2016, my sixth year at a company in which I had grown quite fond. A meeting was added to my calendar. I went. End of story.
Just kidding. I’ll continue…
The meeting was with our Chief Heart Officer (the company had recently gotten a Chief Heart Officer), Claude. A lovely woman who garnered most everyone’s admiration and respect, I was excited to finally get to meet her.
Now, rather than have you try and guess where this story is going, let me just explain that this meeting went extremely well.
In fact, aside from the usual meet-and-greet, I received what she referred to as an ‘off-cycle’ raise — a hefty sum added to my yearly salary on top of the regularly issued annual raise I had just received that past November.
Not too shabby, Steve.
I was blindsided by this news — but in a good way! It was well beyond anything I anticipated or expected from such an encounter.
As I looked on in bewilderment and sheer amaze, Claude gave me her rationale:
“You’re the bricks of this company,” she said. “You’re part of its…
