I also believe that at a critical point (more than six people?), that collective wisdom turns into group think.

By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted.

There are not enough forums where institutions invite their workers to share their failures in a constructive way so the organization can move forward.

I grew up in a modern business environment and did not experience the kind of prejudice that my mother and grandfather experienced.

In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street. I was lucky enough to have been in the business during a stock market boom but just before the fax machine appeared on the scene, let alone email and the Internet. As a result, the messenger business was booming.

Harkening back to a story about my grandfather, I was lucky to attend a great high school in New York, Bronx High School of Science, which has produced more Nobel prize winners than any other high school in America.

I was never going to be one of Nobel prize winners.