George Prate T'10
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Previous employers: United States Army, second lieutenant and platoon leader, first
lieutenant and company executive officer, captain and civil affairs team leader, United States, South Korea, Afghanistan, Mali
Internship: Genentech, Inc.
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It's a sign of great strength and self-confidence for a leader to be
willing to change his or her mind. I learned in the military that it
can have an empowering effect on an organization: recognizing that
others may have better ideas than you can motivate people to be
creative.
Tuck ups the ante on this. It attracts smart people who
want to collaborate and achieve a shared mission and then takes
them—us—back to square one. In Tuck study groups, for example, no one person is in charge. We make decisions when they need to be made. We
learn to be humble among our talented peers. As you discover in the
military, people want to trust their leaders.
At Tuck, we learn how to
earn that trust. We learn that leadership is a privilege.
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