Defining Oneself Amid Ambiguity & Paradox

"If everything were black and white, everyone could do it, but most things in business at any level are gray. The ability to parse out what is on one side and what is on another -- and present those sides well and come to a conclusion -- is [key]."

(Reuben Mark, Chairman of Colgate-Palmolive, in “Colgate-Palmolive's Reuben Mark: On Leadership and 'Moving the Bell Curve'”. Knowledge@Wharton. October 03, 2007.)