A Glimpse of The Next Generation
The Notre Dame students are understandably curious, some perhaps more than a little puzzled, by the old guy who sits near the rear of the classroom every day. One of them asks another skeptically, “Is he actually taking this class?” Yes, he is. After my 30-plus years of working in and around the office furniture/workplace market, I was afforded an amazing opportunity, a fellowship at the University of Notre Dame to study for a year. My program, the Inspired Leadership Initiative, is crafted for “experienced executives” to explore how they would like to design the next phase of their lives. Complete with a student ID, the requisite backpack and AirPods, and with sufficient awe at setting foot each day on one of the world’s premier universities, I became a student again, at 70 years old. But that’s not the story I am telling. The students at Notre Dame are not …
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