CHAPTER TWO
To Serve Others
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Arthur Blank, cofounder of The Home Depot, first got acquainted with Outward Bound in the early days of the company’s founding. Marjorie Buckley, who attended one of Outward Bound’s first girls’ courses in Minnesota and helped found the North Carolina Outward Bound School, was an early investor in Blank’s new endeavor, along with her husband. It was the Buckleys who came up with the name The Home Depot.1
Marjorie invited Arthur to the North Carolina Outward Bound School base camp near Table Rock Mountain in the Pisgah National Forest, and there he found a philosophy that aligned with his and his partner’s call to lead through ...
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