“Conrad will be back this afternoon,” I announced to the group. “So this will be my last time leading the morning meeting. Thank you all so much for your support this past week and a half, it’s been my pleasure to get the day started with all of you.”
I dismissed everyone after I delivered this little end-of-meeting speech, feeling a rush of relief. I’d been given a crazy job to do this week, and now it was done. Starting Monday, I could return my focus to the other million things I needed to do for my actual job again.
But my colleagues were slow to disperse from the conference room and overall seemed… unhappy.
They weren’t looking forward to the CEO’s return to running this show.
It was flattering to me that my coworkers preferred my meetings over Conrad’s. And when I considered
