Be Careful

BE CAREFUL Be careful what you ask for One day life is simple, you ask a female colleague at a partnering organization not to call you “doctor”, “professor” and such, then she says your name the way a symphony orchestra tears into the finale of a spirited overture by Tchaikovsky or Rossini and suddenly your feeling like the primus pilus, the first violin, the anchor baton, the broad- shouldered stroke in an eight-oared shell or the seminal man with genes of genius in his jeans: powerful, confident, perhaps dangerously exposed – a burden you don’t need If you’re only doing business, let formality play its role!