“Are You the Help?” the CEO’s Wife Asked — By Morning, I Was Calling the Board to Order

his keynote, talking about innovation but also about the audit, about changes, about leadership responsibility, Zoey slipped her hand into mine.

“I used to think being ‘the help’ sounded bad,” she said.

“And now?”

“Now it sounds kind of powerful.”

I thought of my mother’s chapped hands. Of my first tiny apartment and the code that became a company. Of continue reading …