When setting forth alone into uncharted waters on a business trip, anticipating strange and stressful situations, concerned your career may be in danger, and uncertain of your ability to rise to the challenge …
… bringing along a bunch of Horatio Hornblower novels is probably not all that clever.
Unless you’re going to be the heroic and dashing Gregory Peck Hornblower, that is.
Maybe I should work on my throat-clearing.
I don’t know…Maybe it would help you to have the whole Dashing-Guy-in-charge thing on your business trip. Just as long as you don’t go into the meetings with your arm’s Akimbo.