The Man on Her Left
“Nobody gets to make that call about their own board.
That’s not a moral principle, it’s a structural one.
The minute you can withhold something because you’ve predicted how people will react to it, there is no board.”
I said, “So would you do it differently?”
And Vivienne Bramhall, who was the most impressive person I have ever worked for, sat in an empty restaurant and said: “I don’t know.
And I’ve stopped trusting the version of me that says yes, because that version has had everything taken off her already and it costs her nothing to be principled now.”