Chapter 21 - GRANDPA’S LAST LETTER TO DAMIANGrandfather wrote letters to both of us.
Not video.
Not secret hologram.
Paper.
Mine was mostly personal.
Damian’s became relevant only because he chose to share it during mediation.
Grandfather wrote:
You are brilliant enough to mistake anticipation for permission. This is your most dangerous habit.
I almost laughed.
Damian did not.
Then:
If Mara says no, your task is to persuade her, restructure the proposal, or lose the argument. It is not to build a machine that assumes she will surrender later.
Then:
A company is not inherited authority. If people follow you only because my shares put you above them, they do not follow you.
Damian’s hands shook while reading.
Not dramatically.
Barely.
I realized then that Grandfather had been harder on him than I knew.
Maybe because he expected more.
Maybe because he recognized himself.
Grandfather had also bulldozed people for decades.
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Wealthy founders often condemn in heirs what made them successful enough to create the inheritance.
History is impolite.
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