I’m not sure I overtly received the advice, but I certainly learned it, and that’s don’t lie. I learned that from the best, a person who had a very difficult time telling the truth about anything. And I just saw the devastating impact that had on people, on morale, on everything. So, you know, I tried hard, hard for 40 years to always tell people the truth, always be upfront. And that covers a wide range. You know, nobody likes to fire somebody, and I remember early in my career dreading having to fire somebody. And then it dawned on me after going through that a few times, that not only was the zoo better off if I had to terminate an individual, the individual usually was a lot better off afterwards. So you’d learn those kinds of important things as you go along.
