*We both spoke at Southern Nazarene University’s Zig Ziglar Center for Ethical Leadership in 2007. I followed up with him in 2008, learning more about his talk “How to Stand Still When the Hippos Charge” because it was one of the most elegant solutions I’d ever heard.

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