Archive for January, 2010

By Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy ‘91

As I thought about what my first post of 2010 should be I realized that even outside the theme of this blog, I was thinking a lot about the concepts of global citizenship and being a good global neighbor. This came from my work on the Thunderbird Alumni Network Board and the Global Citizenship Task Force, but also from a National Public Radio (NPR) submission I made to the This I Believe Program. In my submission I attempt to describe my own belief of us as a global family and I want to share that submission with you here. I wrote it on the anniversary of the Wall coming down and I have been thinking a lot about these themes since then and how it applies to business and the work of Thunderbird around the globe.

This I Believe (original submission on Nov. 09, 2009)

We are all related. I believe we are, though we try our best to deny it. We have had our share of global family feuds that make the ferocity of the Hatfields and the McCoys look like child’s play. Even the Berlin wall –- the 20th century’s most visible family feud — did not last, as we witnessed twenty years ago today. We have a very big, very dysfunctional family.
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