chapter sixteen Values as Your True North
“Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst.”
—Charles Garfield
Tim Forbes, a software programmer in San Jose, has had several jobs over the last few years. Truth be told, he hadn’t really been happy since his college days at Cal Poly, Pomona, and that was more the result of beer parties and a semi-steady girlfriend back then. He told his neighbor that he wasn’t happy in his newest job and wanted to find a new one. The neighbor asked him, “Are you moving toward a new job, or are you moving away from a mess?”
“Well, if I’m honest with myself,” he said, “I suppose I’m running away.”
“That’s unfortunate,” the neighbor said, “because there was obviously some lesson you missed while there, ...
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