tcu common reading 2010

Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Business Information Systems

Director of the Neeley Fellows Program (business honors)

At TCU since 1995

Born in Warsaw, Poland

Why Was This Book A NY Times Bestseller?

Inspiring story of leadership through: seeing the need and filling it

listening and building relationships

persistence

overcoming adversity and roadblocks

empowering people

making a HUGE difference in people’s lives

Changing the world when starting with nothing

Revolution that does not look like revolution

Broad appeal

How is Greg’s Experience and the

book relevant to Your Experience and

TCU?

Ethical Leadership

Responsible Citizenship

Global Community

What do you expect to learn in college and what do you think it will do for you?

"If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs."

"Osama, baah!" Bashir roared. "Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever."

In 2009, photographer Teru Kuwayamatraveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan to document Greg Mortenson and Central Asia Institute projects. See the photographic exhibit of Teru’s work in the following buildings:

2nd Floor of BLUU

2nd Floor of Tandy Hall

Jarvis Hall 209

Reed Hall 214

Come Meet Greg Mortenson and Hear His Presentation

January 24, 2011, 6 p.m.Ed Landreth Auditorium

Presented by Frost Foundation Lectureship for Global Issues and the Center for International Studies: TCU Abroad

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