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PART 3Ever-Expanding Possibilities

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“I have climbed several higher mountains…without guide or path, and have found… it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.”

—Henry David ThoreauEssayist, poet, and philosopher

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Arriving here, I am again reminded where we started in Part 1. It began by pointing out that there are many parallels between climbing a mountain and the experience of raising one’s level of leadership awareness, knowledge, and know-how. We established a goal for this journey to connect you with some of the secrets of reaping the benefits of diversity that reside in people, the benefits that work as a powerful catalyst to accelerate innovation and increased productivity—the kind that ...

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