Chance Encounters
Monday, October 5th, 2009I am always amazed when I happen upon an old friend or business associate while traveling. Last week, I attended the Motivation Show in Chicago and used the opportunity to have a staff meeting, including our representative from Mexico City. That evening, the staff had dinner at Rosebud Prime. When I was returning to the Park Hyatt, I ran into the former marketing director for Finnair, Antero Palo.
Antero now lives in Shenzhen and was in Chicago for business. We were both shocked to run into each other. Just one second difference in time would have meant we would have passed right by each other. We had a cocktail in the Park Hyatt and talked about the good ol’ days when we would play golf and travel the world — from Midnight Sun golf in Finland to West Coast junkets on courses like Via Verde, the Eisenhower and others.
I remember traveling to Los Angeles some years ago and bumping into Jean Sherman Chatzky on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia. You see, I gave Jean her first job in publishing — although she does not list that job in her biography, I did!
So, keep your eyes peeled. You never know who you will run into while traveling the world . . .
– Fran Gallagher, publisher and CEO
