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‘Will you be my best friend?’ How Lumen’s Kate Johnson turned a breakfast into a CEO partnership
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Good morning. Kate Johnson’s friendship with EY global chair and CEO Janet Truncale began when the Lumen Technologies CEO spotted Truncale eating breakfast alone at a Business Roundtable event a few years ago. “I sat down next to her and I said, ‘Will you be my best friend?’” Johnson told me yesterday on stage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit. “I was looking for connection so I could have a better day.”…
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