“Two of the more lasting lessons I took from Wharton’s example that day were to value every encounter and to discount no one. As he has noted himself, ‘Doing wonderful things for the bottom line is fine, but without a sense of genuine compassion, leaders will fall short of greatness. Great leaders do not lose their humaneness nor forget what it was like when they started at the bottom.'” -From, “Take A Lesson: Today’s Black Achievers on How They Made It and What They Learned along the Way” By: Caroline Clarke
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