If Doing Deals is Sometimes Like Climbing a Mountain, who better than David Breashears, filmmaker and mountaineer, to recount how he and his team survived one of the deadliest accidents in the history of Mt. Everest.  

"So where does a mountaineer and filmmaker fit into [a dealmaker's coaching system]?" Breashears asked. "Resilience, excellence, determination, conviction, resolve" -- words that are often used to describe a successful team anywhere, whether on
Wall Street or on a cliff …"

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