Who am I?
My name is Jeffery Keith "Jeff" Skilling, I'm 42 years old, and I am the CEO of the world's 7th largest most valuable company Enron. I was born in 1953 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. I have two sons and one daughter and am divorced from their mother Susan Long in 1997. I went to Harvard law school and have two degrees. I received a scholarship to Southern Methodist University where I initially studied engineering but I changed to business. After graduation I worked for Houston bank which led me to go study at Harvard school of Business. I became a consultant for McKinsey AND one of their youngest! And do you know why? Because I'm fucking smart.
What time is it?
Scene 1: It's 6:45pm, the party started at 6 giving everyone enough chance to stop working and get down to the 3rd floor. I arrive late because long story short I didn't want to come.
Scene 2: It's 9:30pm, It's a starry night, It's calm and I can hear the hum of dormant computers.
Scene 3: It's 11:45am, Lay wanted to get this meeting in before lunch I guess, it's a warm summer day and I'm slightly perspiring.
Scene 4: It's 3:30pm, I'm taking half an hour out of my day to go gym work but I'm still fitting in my meeting with Andy.
Scene 6: It's 4:00am, I should be sleeping, perhaps I might be dreaming, I speak to my daughter.
Scene 7: It's 2:15pm, I should really be going over some earnings reports but I'm taking some time out to watch the finical news, it makes me happy.
Scene 8: It's 7:30pm after hours, I probably should be on my way home but there are more important matters at hand.
Scene 9: It's 11:50pm, new years eve is upon us, it's a slightly windy night.
Scene 10: I'ts 5:00pm, it's surprisingly cold evening.
Where am I?
Scene 1: An office party, 3rd floor.
Scene 2: My office.
Scene 3: Lay's office.
Scene 4: The in house gym, specifically the tennis court area that I've cleared in order to do shuttle runs.
Scene 6: I'm in my apartment, in my bedroom, the one where my family doesn't live.
Scene 7: I'm in my own office.
Scene 8: I'm Andy's office.
Scene 9: I'm on the roof of Enron's building. Then Lay's office.
Scene 10: I'm in Andy's office that has some how transformed into something I hadn't seen before.
What surrounds me?
Scene 1: Other colleagues, glasses of champagne, office appliances that have been pushed aside to make room for the employees,
Scene 2: Claudia Roe, papers from the previous working day, my computer, a few articles of clothing that were removed during our relations.
Scene 3: Lay, Claudia and the table around which were having the meeting.
Scene 4: Gym apparatus, my water bottle, a stop watch, an industrial sized fan,
Scene 6: My Daughter... and that's it.
Scene 7: The TV monitor which is displaying the financial news, my upgraded office with multiple desks, earning reports sheets, telephones, a fax machine a button that pages my assistant. Claudia is here also.
Scene 8: Andy Fastow; it's less well lit than all the other offices, filing cabinets, papers upon papers, a desk, a lamp
Scene 9: My employees, a film crew, a very attractive reporter, then attractive congresswoman and Lay, plus her office which is surprisingly empty.
Scene 10: These weird creatures, paper everywhere, Andy but he seems different, there's a tense atmosphere.
What are my relationships to the things around me?
Scene 1: I don't dislike my colleagues, they just frustrate me because they don't understand the idea. I'm not much of a drinker but the champagne is a good boost of confidence.
Scene 2: Claudia is a challenge, she is an intellectual equal, she's brilliant attractive and I was in love with her. Turns out she was just stringing me on for the power trip and that makes me feel so insignificant and now I know I must destroy her or at least take her down a few pegs.
Scene 3: Lay holds the key to my future, all the power to make the changes I want and the only thing that stands between me and my dream is Claudia and I will stop at nothing to make sure that doesn't happen.
Scene 4: Andy
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What do I want?
Scene 1: I want my colleagues to understand the power mark to market has and how my idea can completely change the way this entire company works, I want to validate my choice of joining this company, I want to prove to everyone that I am the real deal, the smartest guy in the room, the person that's gonna change the whole world. I want everyone to listen and understand!
Scene 2: I want Claudia to run away with me, I want her to fit into my puzzle, I want her to love me for real, I want her.
Scene 3: I want to win, I want to out-do Claudia, I want Lay to understand my vision, I want the position of CEO, I want to change the world, I want to put my stamp on this planet, I want to make use of every second of time I have on this Earth.
Scene 4: I want to test my power, I want to find out what Andy is made of, I want to find out whether Andy is strong enough. I want to show everyone that I am the strongest.
Scene 6: I want to connect with my daughter, I want her to love me, I want her forgiveness, I want to freeze her in time.
Scene 7: I want Claudia to know that I've won, I want to celebrate our stock price, I want to forget that things are going, I want to show off my success.
Scene 8: I want help, I want some to solve my problems, I want someone to share this massive pressure on my shoulders.
Scene 9: I want our stock price to remain high, I want to turn our loses into innovations.
Scene 10: I want Andy to explain what's going,
What's in my way?
Scene 1: My colleagues ignorance/incompetence.
Scene 2: Claudia's power game that doesn't feature me as an end result.
Scene 3: Claudia's dream and vision, her relationship with Lay and her lack of trust in my new ideas and the lack of shared experience we have.
Scene 4: Andy's obsession with me that puts up a guard to the real him.
Scene 6: My attention span and the neglect I have subjected her to over the years.
Scene 7: Claudia's blocks and her strong will.
Scene 8: My own Darwin principles, my perfection complex that makes it difficult to admit that I'm struggling and need help.
Scene 9: People giving me problems and not solutions.
Scene 10: Andy's become his own person and might be breaking away from my control.
What am I going to do to get what I want?
Scene 1: Explain it to them, simplify, take it down to the level, impassion the people, give them the drive to work hard for success, make them realise that we are only mortal and we should be rewarded for our brilliance now.
Scene 2: Tell her that I'm leaving my wife, try to stop playing her game and make her start playing my game.
Scene 3: Bare my soul to Lay, show her all my cards, inspire her imagination give her nostalgia about her own past.
Scene 4: Test Andy's physical endurance, push him to his extreme, break him down and then build him back up in my own image.
Scene 6: Show her my world, find common ground, find the midway between money and her childishness.
Scene 7: By flaunting my power in front of her and when she tries to rebel shut her down by showing her the harsh truth of her position within the company.
Scene 8: Pushing myself to admit the truth, letting my own wall down, breaking the facade just long enough for someone else to see that I can't do this alone.
Scene 9: Turning what could be seen as unsuccessful into the next big thing by going invented a new industry.
Scene 10: Watch Andy's moves closely, let him take control of the room, take a back seat.
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