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TOM
ANDERSON
Anderson had a high
school equivalency degree, no college at all, and he was
aggressively proud of it. “My degree is from the school of
life,” he would announce whenever he was asked about his
education. What he left unsaid was that he possessed an
uncanny talent no school could provide: He was
instinctively, intuitively sensitive to the nuances of
human nature. He knew within minutes of talking to a man
what motivated him and made him tick, whether it was
vanity, greed, ambition, or something much different.
On the surface he was a
plain-spoken, giant bear of a man who liked to work in his
shirt-sleeves. Beneath that unpolished surface, Tom
Anderson had a gift for negotiating – and a knack for
getting to the crux of a problem that was invaluable,
especially when he was dealing with the unions on
Intercorp’s behalf.
But of all his
attributes, Matt prized one the most: Anderson was loyal.
He was, in fact the only man in the room whose talents
were not for sale to the highest bidder. He’d worked for
his first company that Matt had bought. When he sold it,
Tom elected to take his chances with Matt rather than the
new owners who’d offered him an excellent position and a
better salary.
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