Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.