Why I’m Passionate About Collaboration
In 1957, President Eisenhower appointed the first members of the newly created U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. These six individuals reflected the varying beliefs of the nation at that time, and Ike wondered if they could ever come to agreement. After two years of meeting they reached an impasse. So one member, Father Theodore Hesburgh, president of the University of Notre Dame, brought them to a picturesque retreat site in Wisconsin. During dinner they discovered that they all loved to fish. Hesburgh saw an opening. He got a boat and took the group for a fishing trip on the lake. They fished, they relaxed, and they talked. And in that setting, they discovered some common ground. The commission soon ...
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