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...turned their attention to Ayala, alleging that she fabricated the story and that the finger belonged to an associate of her husband's. Ayala dropped her lawsuit against Wendy's, and the company was exonerated. CEO Schuessler can almost laugh about the "finger incident" now, but he says it taught him that "no matter how good you do your job, one person can really throw a company's life out of balance." The only thing that kept customers in the stores, he says, was the company's good reputation...
...scared, but I wanted it badly enough,” he says. “I had very good people who taught me....I just followed around with them and learned...
...much as the last four years have taught me, they have primarily revealed that a true education consists of trying to answer what you do not know, not regurgitating what you do. Journalists spend their lives identifying new questions and answering them. They are professional students...
Before I learned this lesson as a reporter, I learned it at Harvard. My undergraduate education taught me that facts are indispensable but originality lies in finding the holes between them. The best classes I took placed a premium on work that took a new approach to an old question. Instead of asking why the French Revolution happened, I was taught to ask why an English revolution did not. The question was inspired by what I did not know, not what I did. Answering it required a different level of analysis and originality. Before you can answer a provoking question...
...classroom as a student again. But as a journalist, I will spend the rest of my life trying to learn enough about a topic to educate someone else about it. In finding and answering these questions, I will be forced to embrace, and challenge, my ignorance. Harvard has taught me that the most interesting problems always lie in the unanswered questions...