What to Say When You Follow Up by Ilise Benun

She was blonde, 40-ish - and from the look of her Prada bag and Ebel watch, a successful business executive.

I was sitting next to her on a flight from Palm Beach to Newark. It was October 10th, I was returning from ETR's Bootcamp ... and I couldn't stop myself from peeking at what she was writing on her laptop. 

She was composing e-mail messages, and I could tell that she had just attended a meeting and was diligently doing her follow-up.  The problem was that every single message she wrote was the same - and, in my opinion, really boring. 

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