Shareholders may not take kindly to a boss who has turned down a fair offer for the company—although Microsoft may yet return to the fray and bid for Yahoo! at a later date.
Even one letter from that time, as plain as can be, would have been invaluable-a godsend, you might say, although Beckett would have disputed the existence of the sender.
Maybe there will be some kind of backlash when they hit adolescence, but at least they will have had most of their lives to assimilate the information.
Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.