Word: selflessness
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...while I am not sure of the cause or have any possible cures to offer, thanks to my good fortune of getting to know Jonathan—the most selfless person that I’ve ever met—I am confident that there’s no inevitability to the hostility of Harvard students. He’s been willing to drop everything (no matter how urgent) and listen to and empathize with the problems of all his friends even at times when our problems paled in comparison to his own. On top of that, he?...
...Katzenbach runs his own consulting firm in New York City. For this book, he has drawn on hundreds of recent interviews and his 40 years of experience in consulting. What quickly becomes clear is that workers such as Jenkins (most names in the book are fictitious) aren't selfless grinds; they have simply found satisfaction in their work in some personal way. Jenkins thrives on being the office go-to guy for everything from computer glitches to party planning, and he values the chance to earn a good living in a city he loves. Jennifer Bartholomew, 40, who works...
...Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, he helped found the umbrella opposition I.N.C. in 1992, and his political savvy earned him pre-eminence in anti-Saddam exile circles. To his passionate supporters, who include Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he's a selfless democrat steeped in Western ways who could guide Iraq out of decades of repression...
...druglords, ghetto mothers - who opened up to him. He charmed them. He wowed their kids. He fed their news into his notebooks, then moved on. "I always felt like I was leaving people seduced and abandoned," he says. Eventually, so does Ray Mitchell, the generous but by no means selfless man at the center of Samaritan. At 42, Ray is a successful TV writer who has turned his back on Hollywood and headed home to Jersey, to the housing project where he grew up and the daughter he hasn't seen much of. He volunteers to teach a writing class...
...high school work to do, but I had forgotten my notebook and a pen. As I looked around for someone to lend me a piece of paper and something to write with, Tiffany offered me her own pen and notebook. It was such a small gesture, with the most selfless implications...