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Then CBS executive Barbara Corday said, regarding educa- tion, “If I were talking to young executives, I’d advise them to forget ...
don’t know where—that there was something, not immoral, about business, but a sense that you had to play the edges in or- der to ...
and business. “The people I gravitate to are dreamers. I wouldn’t live anywhere except near a great university, because I like a ...
THE BROADENING EXPERIENCE Travel is another kind of learning. All the clichés about it are true. It does broaden. It is revelato ...
many Jews developed acute intelligence because they were per- petual exiles. The stranger in a strange land sees more and sees f ...
truly reflect on one’s experience, and learn from it, and emerge renewed and refreshed. FRIENDS AND MENTORS As much as we each n ...
Former college president Alfred Gottschalk learned from many sources. “I learned how to cook and sew and clean from my mother, a ...
Barbara Corday’s writing partner was also her best friend. She said, “Barbara Avedon and I had a great partnership. My daughter ...
friends, army buddies, business pals. But sometimes they make history, as with FDR’s brain trust, Eisenhower’s general staff, Jo ...
memorable business training films, said, “It’s self-evident that if we can’t take the risk of saying or doing something wrong, o ...
to watch it, and it lasted only five or six episodes. It was a flop, but I don’t see it as a failure. So it also wasn’t a mistak ...
then. And I said, ‘Yes sir. That’s correct.’ So he stood up and held out his hand. He said, ‘I just want to congratulate you. Al ...
There are lessons in everything, and if you are fully deployed, you will learn most of them. Experiences aren’t truly yours unti ...
sionately compelled to make it come about. I think that a com- pelling vision combined with a unique ability to manage risk is t ...
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5 Operating on Instinct Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was, that in order to be a [Mississippi River] pilot a man ...
Lest anyone feel overwhelmed by complexity, however, I’d like to offer this thought from Carl Sagan’s The Dragons of Eden: We ca ...
more intuitive, conceptual, synthesizing, and artistic. And so, of course, do we. As I talked with the people I interviewed for ...
As executive director of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Frances Hesselbein saw social changes, including the increase in mi- noriti ...
contrary. I don’t know when I started to understand that there was something divine about that inner voice—I certainly didn’t in ...
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