Making Room for Others

Leadership requires us to care

The Sermon on the Mount (detail) by Carl Bloch, 1877 (public domain - Wikipedia)

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“To survive, pluralistic societies require citizens who can look across difference and show the kind of understanding that is the prerequisite of trust — who can say, at the very least, ‘I’m beginning to see you. Certainly, I will never fully experience the world as you experience it, but I’m beginning, a bit, to see the world through your eyes.’” — David Brooks, 2023

I had a discussion with my oldest …