The golf ball rolled on the half-meter-wide artificial lawn,
Osborne stretched his body, gently swung the club, the chrome strip on the club reflecting the light of the glass chandelier in the office.
When he was studying for his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business,
The textbooks liked to refer to giant groups like Scholastic as Empires, to describe their colossal influence in the world.
Osborne loved this saying,
Last year, Scholastic's annual revenue exceeded the GDP sum of many small African countries, truly deserving to be called an independent business empire.
Every time he stood in his CEO office on the 41st floor at the London Financial Street Building, looking down at the bustling crowd on the street below, a massive sense of power filled his heart.
If Scholastic could be likened to an independent kingdom like the Holy Roman Empire,
