He looked through the glass windows of his office. All he could see where terraces of surrounding buildings. He took another deep breath, the altitude of his office also seem to point toward his new social position.
He turned back to look at his desk and smiled. The power and position a CEO enjoyed was like a beautiful unfaithful sweetheart, waiting to move on. He has been lately steeling many of them. Each merger he planned made him more compassionate to the people he conquered.
Till recently, he was just another banker with an iron hand; whose conservative approach held his bank back, not allowing it to soar and prosper like others. The growth graphs under his guidance never generated any admiration. He was just another riches to riches story till the economy nosedived.
Soon he seemed to be the last man standing in a war field with casualties all around. And then the inevitable happened, the unhurried growth pace of his bank, which was looked down upon by analyst turned into a sign of maturity and constraint. The B-school turned to study and understand his philosophy.
He smiled again.
Nothing changed beside perception.
His building just became tall as other taller building around him shattered. He picked the remote just in time to unmute the LCD TV on the white wall opposite to his desk to hear the line he spoke to conclude his interview to CNN this morning, “Success is the most humbling experience, if you can understand it”.
