Explore All Possible Avenues

Explore All Possible Avenues

This is part 7 of a 12 part series that Dave Weber calls the 12 X’s of Leadership

Several dozen upper level engineering students were waiting for their professor to arrive one day for class. While not a formal understanding on most college campuses, there is a kind of unspoken rule that if a professor is more than 5 minutes late, then class is canceled.

Just as the students were about to “high five” and head for the door, in walked their professor carrying a large cardboard box. He loudly dropped the box on his desk and announced, “I am giving you a surprise exam today and a large percentage of your final grade in this class will be determined by how well you do on this test.”

Immediately groans were heard ...