Personal Narrative: Divergent And Transformative Experiences

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I learned about authentic leadership through three divergent and transformative experiences in a rural Ethiopian village, a kindergarten classroom in Tanzania, and a boardroom. “The water is not dirty,” the village elder told me. I traveled 8,000 miles to a rural Ethiopian village to help a community fulfill their request for an improved water supply, yet I was greeted with these words. Immediately, my naïve confidence in the simplicity of the intended transaction disappeared. As the only non-Ethiopian of our visiting team, I stepped back and listened as a delicate, culturally-complex conversation unfolded. The discussion revealed an important dichotomy in our respective understandings of the problem. Through this experience, I learned that

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