Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Arne's "quiet revolution"
As part of the show-and-tell of working in grant funded projects taking care of very poor kids in very devastated cities. I got to meet CEO's, sit in boardrooms, greet national politicians--I even got to spend a couple of days in the White House sitting on some sub-committee of some sub-committee.
A few things I learned:
- Powerful people don't pay for coffee--it's just always there.
- Powerful people have pretty fingernails. (I get bored easily at meetings.)
- Poor kids of color with bright smiles on their faces loosen checkbooks.
- Nobody really wants to hear the