Years in the consulting and investing world teach you many things — how to read a balance sheet, how to spot what's overstated, how to know if you’re betting on the right person. But the quietest lesson, the one nobody puts on a slide deck, is about relationships. Not networking. Relationships —not those that end with a business card exchange but the ones that outlast the transaction that brought two people into the same room. I've spent enough years watching how people build

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With restless nights about broken dreams Playing to the yearning of this moment Not of what it is but all that it could be We toss and...