CHAPTER EIGHT

The Crucial Lessons from Guide Dog Training

ON A FIERCELY HOT DAY IN LATE JUNE, I drove onto the sixty-nine-acre campus of The Seeing Eye, Inc., in historic and well-preserved Morristown, New Jersey, to meet with its current president and CEO, Dr. James Kutsch. Jim Kutsch is one heck of a smart and likeable man and an erudite, thoughtful, and decisive executive. He holds a doctoral degree in computer science and developed one of the world’s first screen-reading programs for the visually impaired. Jim is the first graduate of The Seeing Eye to become its president; Colby, his blonde Labrador retriever, stayed patiently in her bed in his office until needed to navigate the halls and campus.

You enter the main building on the campus ...

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