Today I finally managed to attend a board meeting of the National Academy Foundation in New York. It was held in the board room of Sandy Weill’s office on a very high floor of the General Motors building, on the South East corner of Central Park. An extraordinary view from the windows – which nearly made me lose concentration in the meeting…
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