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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. He had to take some of his own business advice, to do less better: the third editor he paid to read his novel asked him, “Would this book suffer if you started at Chapter 12?”.

CEO 100
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From CEO to Novelist: Not without Perseverance

In the CEO Afterlife

For John Richard Bell it was a bizarre change in career direction. The golden parachute was nice, but the passion and the purpose was suddenly gone.”. He had to take some of his own business advice, to do less better: the third editor he paid to read his novel asked him, “Would this book suffer if you started at Chapter 12?”.

CEO 100