I recently had dinner with 15 high school students from China at a well-known Minneapolis eatery called the Old Spaghetti Factory. As we were leaving, a table of six stopped me to inquire if they were all mine. They were joking, but in a funny way, the sentiment rang true. The students arrived on the rather ominous date of Friday, July 13th. They were going to be participating in the pilot year of a four-week leadership training program that I had spent April through July creating and scheduling. If the program were deemed a success, it had the potential to become an annual thing that would include prospective students from countries all over the world. So, no pressure. While designing the program curriculum, I took many factors into account: the importance of finding dedicated, competent core
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