Lessons of a Lifetime

A TRIBUTE TO WARWICK RULE:

When we’re lucky and stars align, we have a chance to personally know true legends while they live and work among us. When legends pass, we hold tight to fond memories and cherish lessons they taught.

On many occasions, co-workers would ask how I stayed grounded as a senior executive with the ability to connect with workers at every level and continue to “say it plain.” I was perhaps an odd ball because of my relentless quest for common sense solutions to complex problems.

From my earliest days of listening to women in my family talk about stuff I was not supposed to be hearing, I remember one or more of them saying, “A DOG THAT BRINGS A BONE WILL CARRY A BONE.” It might have been an intense conversation they were having about someone outside the family (and sometimes inside) bringing news of what someone else had said or done. You know, someone bringing the proverbial gossip. They were bringing a “bone.”

As I listen to news and current events this year, my mind whirls with the sheer number of things being hurled at the president. I think about him and know it is impossible for him to respond to everyone and everything, everyday, all the time. So it is with us as we take on crazy stuff at work.