Deirdre drummed her fingers on the desk again, glanced at her email, and then looked up for the thousandth time at the closed door to the conference room. She looked again at her watch.
45 minutes ago, Deirdre had given the biggest sales pitch of her life in front of her bosses and a contingent of executives from her firm’s biggest client. The entire account had been on the line and Deirdre felt like she’d nailed it. Hit it out of the park. When they dismissed her for some discussion, she was sure they’d be calling her back in any moment to share the good news. Instead, Deirdre had spent the last…46 minutes waiting for any sign at all of how things are going.
“Deirdre…”
Her head snapped up to see the conference room door open just wide enough for Jack, her boss, to stick his head through.
“Deirdre, can you join us please?”
Jack had his poker face on, which didn’t make sense. Deirdre just *knew* her presentation was perfect. So what was the problem?