Category: Kellogg

My guess is that you may be getting tired of me constantly advising everyone to develop a “balanced perspective” (Principle #2 of “From Values to Action”) 😀 Yet, no matter what the topic (gun control, immigration, wars around the world, etc.), there seems to be a desire by way too many people to focus on one extreme or the other. So I feel obligated to keep advising people to try and understand multiple perspectives, or as Saint Francis stated, “Seek to understand before you are understood.” I am also reminded of what my grandfather, Farrell Grehan, used to tell me many years ago: “Harry, life is much simpler when you only understand YOUR side of the story.”👍🤣

I am finding artificial intelligence (AI) to be the latest example of a topic where a balanced perspective is often missing.

My youngest son, Daniel, is a senior at the University of Notre Dame. It feels like he just started college, and somehow he’s already graduating this May!!!

Julie, Diane, and I drove to Notre Dame over the weekend and had the opportunity to attend two wonderful events, one educational and the other a wild fun time!

On Saturday, Father Mike Schmitt (the priest who leads “The Bible in a Year” project) gave a wonderful presentation in the Notre Dame Basilica that highlighted several stories from the book of Genesis. Father Mike has a unique ability to share insights in an engaging way that is both serious and humorous.

For example, he discussed the story of how God created Adam from dirt. As the story goes, God decided to give Adam companionship by taking one of Adam’s ribs in order to create Eve. In response to the concern that this ‘origin story’ implies that women are somehow less important than men, Father Mike mentioned that someone told him: “At least women came from a human being, as opposed to men coming from dirt.” 🤣🤣🤣

Greetings from Hong Kong! I am here to teach my “Leading a Global Company” class for the EMBA KH26 (Class of 2024) executives, which is a joint program between Kellogg and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). It is important to note that the HKUST EMBA program has been rated by the Financial Times as the number one Executive MBA program in the world for the last 12 consecutive years!!!

The KH 26 class included a wonderful group of senior executives from Mainland China, Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, France, Netherlands, India, Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and even one person from the United States. Teaching this group of individuals was a fantastic experience. This is my 10th consecutive year of teaching in the program.