Leading Teams with Integrity: Advice from Leadership Experts (Collection)

Chapter 7. When Identity Must Deal with a Life Crisis

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world—that is the myth of the atomic age—as in being able to remake ourselves.

—Mohandas K. Gandhi

When someone knocked on his door, Rob answered, though he still wore his robe. There stood Dutch Sullivan.

“Come on in, Dutch. I was out playing basketball until they turned the park lights off on us at midnight. Sorry.” He swept a hand across himself to apologize for being found in a robe at 9:30 a.m. on a Saturday.

“No worries,” Dutch said. “I just stopped by to see if I could ask for your help.”

“Sure. Help doing what?”

“You see, that’s the kind of person you are,” Dutch said. “You say ‘sure’ first and then ask what ...