Then a middle-aged executive type appeared beside us.
But, say the authors of this article, for today's middle-aged executive, "midlife is your best and last chance to become the real you".The authors aim to debunk two myths.
If you are a middle-aged executive, someone who has dutifully climbed the hierarchy of an ad agency or public relations firm, it is disconcerting to be begging for business from a guy just out of college worth $15 million.
Sean Penn plays a middle-aged executive evidently in the throes of a midlife breakdown, and he is mentally carried back in time to his boyhood in 1950s west Texas, where he and his brothers were dominated by an overbearing father, superbly played by Brad Pitt – a ferocious disciplinarian who abandoned his early vocation for music to become a failed businessman.
Aldrich, who made such a winningly astringent impression as Pope Joan, was equally good as a midlevel, middle-aged executive tired of seeing her male trainees promoted over her.
What they got was the sound of middle-aged executives gambling on what teenagers listened to and coming up snake eyes.
After a disastrous global crash caused in part by the recklessness of thrusting young and middle-aged executives, is risk-taking such an estimable quality?
They behave, basically, more like boys on a playground than middle-aged executives steering a company through a record-setting quarter.
Big, traditional companies, from Procter & Gamble to Siemens, have started "reverse mentoring" programmes in which middle-aged executives are tutored on the mysteries of the Internet by young newcomers who sometimes slip and call them "dude".
It's not just White Van Man who lives in daily anxiety about where his next paycheck is coming from, but middle-class, middle-aged executives who know redundancy is always around the next corner.
And when he and the buyers for Connecting Things entered a vendor meeting the next morning, they found middle-aged executives playing with the toys on the conference-room table.
