HITTING THE MEANING
CCL has devoted a lot of time and resources over the past twenty years to studying the key events in the lives of executives. One of the conclusions from that work is that the most effective leaders have the ability to reflect on a key event and draw from the important lessons it taught them. They don't fall into the trap that T. S. Eliot described: “We have the experience but miss the meaning.”
Lipinski believes that the moment she learned she had won a Pulitzer, after being told she would not, changed the way she works with people to this day. For example, whenever someone at the Trib is nominated for an award, she sits down with them and tells them the story of that day in 1988. She also tells them that one of two things ...
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