Summary of Michael Benfante & Dave Hollander's Reluctant Hero

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#1 I had been working for Network Plus since May 1994. I didn’t plan on that, but I had been living in northern New Jersey all my life, so I wanted to be closer to home. The company was expanding.

#2 I had reached my personal goal of becoming the sales manager of an office. That was big for me. I was disappointed to find out that Network Plus already had a sales manager in New York City, and that I would be an assistant manager there.

#3 I had known Jeff’s family since I met them my freshman year at Brown, sixteen years before. They knew I was single, and they asked me when I was going to get married. I couldn’t take the pressure any longer, so I cried out that I was making sure my friends were taken care of first.

#4 I met Joy at a restaurant, and we ended up at a bar. We had drinks and watched the Knicks play San Antonio in the NBA Finals. The Knicks won! We didn’t want to go home.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822540033

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Insights on Michael Benfante & Dave Hollander's Reluctant Hero

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had been working for Network Plus since May 1994. I didn’t plan on that, but I had been living in northern New Jersey all my life, so I wanted to be closer to home. The company was expanding.

#2

I had reached my personal goal of becoming the sales manager of an office. That was big for me. I was disappointed to find out that Network Plus already had a sales manager in New York City, and that I would be an assistant manager there.

#3

I had known Jeff’s family since I met them my freshman year at Brown, sixteen years before. They knew I was single, and they asked me when I was going to get married. I couldn’t take the pressure any longer, so I cried out that I was making sure my friends were taken care of first.

#4

I met Joy at a restaurant, and we ended up at a bar. We had drinks and watched the Knicks play San Antonio in the NBA Finals. The Knicks won! We didn’t want to go home.

#5

I was manager of my company’s World Trade Center office in New York, and I had met Joy. I had worked hard to get there, and I felt that the point was to go public and cash in those stock options. But the dot-com crash hit New York, and Network Plus crashed along with it. I lost everything.

#6

I was a manager at Network Plus,