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Article by The Washington Post about Social Responsibility as being mandatory for current and future business leaders especially as it relates to our current society and movements like the Occupy movement.

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=996546360&ids=30ScPoQd...

Please check out this Forbes Magazine feature that cites volunteering as a major way to promote Executive Leadership

http://www.linkedin.com/news?actionBar=&articleID=999217797&ids=30ScPoQd...

I can remember a moment with my old high school band director when I was in college. I remember talking to the man who would consistently communicate messages to me that served to change my life.

I told him, "I'm in 14 organizations at school," referring to my leadership and community involvement. I thought he would be proud.

He replied, "When you know yourself better, that number will decrease."

I recently heard a professor state, "If you believe that you're ugly, you'll act like you're ugly, and therefore you will become ugly..." Replace "ugly" with "uneducated", "educated," "beautiful," "capable," "confident," "blessed"...Interesting isn't it...Believe in you...Believe in us as a people, whether young and old, Black or White, rich or poor...Many blessings.

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.