The announcement email is sent around and the name of the executive who everyone said would make the board is right there.  He’s about to hit send on his email to the PR person about how glad he is to be joining the board and when, wait, there’s been a mistake and sorry, big mistake,  it’s you—the woman who was meant to win it all along.  Now he feels what—humiliated, weird, angry—and you feel a joy that is immediately undercut by your own doubt as well as maybe a few whispers as to why you got the nod to take the one empty seat.

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