A leader explains his stewardship philosophy: leave people and places better than you found them. He traces it to Eagle Scout days, when scouts cleaned campsites after use, and now applies it at Purdue University to build a lasting positive legacy.
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Okay, number 9, and I've already said this one: leave people in places better than I found them. Stewardship. Leave people in places better than I found them. And I started that by saying, uh, I leave places better than I found them because I was an Eagle Scout. And so when we were in scouting, you always had to, uh, be arm apart and walk through the campsite after everything was packed up, ready to go, and you'd have to clean up this pieces, and it was always picking up gum wrappers and stuff that other kids put on the ground. So I like leave people, leave places better than I found them. And I said, no, leave people in places better than I found them. That's so good. And so I'm in the process of trying to do that. Not trying, but I'm doing that at Purdue right now. It's like, how do I— so I've done some great work, but how do I put a bow on that in this last phase before I leave?