Success with succession

 

With Sidney approaching his 65th birthday, son George, 24, assumed that it was only a matter of time before he inherited the majority of the shares in the family business. After all, having graduated in English and travelled the world for a year, he now had three months under his belt attending meetings with his father.

Feeling good, George turned his attention to finding a wife with whom to share his prospective fortune. Sitting in a hotel bar one evening, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Plucking up the courage to talk to her, he introduced himself and discovered that her name was Liza. “I may look like an ordinary guy, but it won’t be long before I inherit the family business” he said. Suitably impressed, Liza obtained his business card and three weeks later, became his stepmother.

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