“Arthur,” I said, “whatever happened between Greg and me should not decide his job.” Arthur agreed — he had not called about my marriage. He had called because the post created a governance issue: Greg’s promotion packet claimed sole origination credit for several enterprise relationships, and some of those relationships existed before Greg ever joined the company.
Then Arthur asked about the one subject Greg and I almost never discussed: my grandfather, the old investment, the trust — the voting interest, the original bridge financing, the fact that I was the reason Arthur had put Greg on the Falcon Manufacturing account seven years earlier, when Greg feared being laid off and one quiet phone call of mine opened the door. Did Greg know about the trust? No. The voting interest? No. The bridge financing? No. That I was the reason he got Falcon? No.