Best of the Web linked earlier this week to a
speech given by
Tom Brokaw at
Dartmouth.
You have been hearing all of your life about this moment - your first big step into what you have been called and told is the real world. What, you may be asking yourself this morning, is this real life all about? Ladies and gentlemen of the Class of 2005 at Dartmouth, it's not college - it's not high school. Real life is junior high.
The world you're about to enter is filled with adolescent pettiness, pubescent rivalries, the insecurities of 13-year-olds and the false bravado of 14-year-olds.
I didn't have much to add, just the links and to note that it's probably the wisest thing I've ever heard from a commencement speech or Tom Brokaw.
Goe, because more businesses will be ruined by office politics than saved by hard working employees.
