You Could Have Done That

[393 words] Carol Bartz was the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of Yahoo. In an interview while at a forum at Georgia State University she was asked what the best advice was she had been given. She said it came from her grandmother, who raised her, on a farm in Minnesota. “I was in the machine shed with my brother. We heard a rattlesnake above us and ran for Grandma. She grabbed a shovel, knocked the snake out of the rafters and chopped its head off. Then she said, ‘You could have done that.’ And you know what? She was right.” That got me to thinking about what I could have done. Several years ago while preaching for the Bristol Road church in Flint, Michigan, we had a school of preaching. One of our instructors taught Greek and I signed up to take the course. I went three days and quit….

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