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At thirty-two, I had spent six years keeping my uncle’s distribution company alive, believing every missed vacation and sixty-hour week was preparing me to run it someday. Then, at a family dinner, Uncle Hollis handed the company to his son Beckett and told eighteen relatives I was “not intelligent enough” for executive work. I congratulated them, resigned the next morning, and started over. Thirty days later, Beckett called me at 12:47 a.m., shouting because three truckloads of steel were stranded at a freight terminal and a $400,000 customer order was about to fail. Then he asked the question that told me he had finally read the contract his father signed years earlier: “Why does Ironbridge’s final notice have your name on it?”
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