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 …<\/p>\n
… bringing along a bunch of Horatio Hornblower <\/i>novels is probably not all that clever.<\/p>\n
Unless you’re going to be the heroic and dashing Gregory Peck Hornblower, that is.<\/p>\n
Maybe I should work on my throat-clearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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