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Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment – one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.

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Mountain climbing was one of Mother’s favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

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It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize – slow as I may have been – that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

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May 3, 2024

It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazingly apparent. Gradually I came to realize – slow as I may have been – that what mattered was performance, that sometimes people might have to be helped to develop, and that it takes all kinds to make an organization run properly.

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May 3, 2024

Mountain climbing was one of Mother’s favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

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