Imagine being the head of a corporation — not a huge company, to be sure, but one of some note and importance. You’ve been invited to New York, to a meeting of the Fortune 500, where not only will you be there as a peer, but you’ll actually have the opportunity to give a speech before the assembled, The movers and shakers of the corporate world will be there to hear you, along with the media. It’s, in many ways, a once-in-a-lifetime personal and professional triumph.
And then, the day you’re to give your speech … someone hands you a press release, informing you your company has fired your ass.
Talk about bad timing.