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Executive Assistant · Public Tech

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Your CEO is mid-flight to a board offsite. Legal just emailed a draft 8-K related to a leadership change. PR wants a holding statement. The CFO asks you to hold everything until we land.

What do you do in the next 30 minutes, and what do you explicitly not do? Be concrete about who you involve and what you protect.

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