It's 5:15 A.M., cold, and dark. You are standing in a hotel lobby in a northern Midwestern city, about to be driven to the headquarters of the company on whose board of directors you serve. The board's committee meetings-audit, compensation, others-began yesterday after lunch and ran all afternoon, and then the full board had dinner. Days earlier you'd received a few hundred pages of briefing materials, which you are expected to have read and thought about. This morning you'll have breakfast at 6, and the board will convene at 6:30. You'll work until lunchtime, eat, and head for the airport.
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