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Perhaps there was never any trust and sweetness in Susan Wolfe, the former general counsel at Business Objects?  Was Wolfe born selfish, without any blame to her former law firm employer, with no analogy to the jock described in Chip Ingram’s book entitled Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships? 

After Wolfe hired her team, submitting ads to legal newspapers, which amounted to at least $1000 per ad, Wolfe decided to retire and negotiated a consulting agreement in exchange for option exercise rights, among other benefits.  Did Wolfe leave pieces of cardboard in the people she sought to destroy by leaving them unemployed?  Wolfe terminated employees without reason and without thought to the effects of people losing their jobs.  Did she think that some might commit suicide because of the importance of their careers and income?  Did she think about the emptiness that resulted in people’s hearts when they collected unemployment benefits after struggling to get their attorney titles?  To this day, people at Silicon Valley executive dinners or corporate counsel luncheons do not speak highly of Wolfe.  One attorney who directly reported to Wolfe commented that she did not think Wolfe was very bright and laughed at how Wolfe thought she could learn enough French for business in a quarter at Stanford. 

Though these people she dismissed have risen to higher levels of employment, they lost pieces of themselves to Wolfe.  Wolfe left them with insecurity, hate, distrust, bitterness.  Wolfe took from them their dedication and purity, in speech, thoughts, generosity.