When the red flags go up - don’t ignore them

The first flag was raised at the very first meeting Zach had with a prominent lawyer. The lawyer had to abruptly leave the meeting to go deal with a disgruntled client. Zach ignored the warning signs - and several years he was the disgruntled client himslef.

For Gaurav Srivastava, the first red flag went up when Niels Troost told him a previous business partner of his was a fake spy. Then, more flags went up when Troost kept him in the dark as to what was going on in the business. Troost’s violations of sanctions would eventually be revealed in the audit, but at that point it was already too late - a massive campaign was already underway to set Gaurav up as ‘the fall guy’.

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