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The Real Deal

I realised I’d been too hasty. I had gone straight to the
destination and forgotten to take her on the journey. She’d walked
in expecting to hear about opportunities in her field, not ours, so
my offer was too difficult to take in.
‘Let me tell you how it works . . .’ Several hours later, Sam was
still in the office but she still hadn’t taken me up on the offer of a
job. However, I could tell that she really had what it took to be
great at recruitment – she could sell but she could also read people
– and I didn’t want to let her go.
‘I tell you what. Come and work with me for a week. If you still
think it’s not right for you, then I’ll drop it, but give me a week.’
Needless to say, Sam Collins came for a week and never left, and
in the years to come she would see Alexander Mann through some
of the most extraordinary times that any of us had ever experi-
enced.

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