It's amazing the ideas that arise when I'm on long drives through the countryside. In the Fall of 2018, while traveling to attend a board meeting of The Jeffersonian Institute in Jefferson, Texas, I heard a program on National Public Radio ( NPR podcast ). Thanks, Sirius. You're my lifesaver on driving trips, along with Audible. The program told the story of how communities of people, large and small, were reading together, uniting diverse groups and creating a common cause. The broadcast (check out the link) sparked an idea. What if Mays Business School was reading the same book at the same time - students, faculty, staff and even former students. I pitched the concept to Bailey Urban, the energetic and vivacious leader of the Mays Transformational Leadership initiative, who was all over it. As was the case in the communities profiled by NPR, I told her that we (Mays) would buy the books and give a copy to anyone who was willing to participate in a discussion gro
