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This devotional address entitled, Private Service, was given on October 1st of 1996 by Lee Tom Perry, then a BYU professor of strategy and organizational behavior.

I enrolled in Yale University as a doctoral student in administrative sciences in September

in 1977.

Around me, all kinds of changes were occurring.

A new school, the School of Organization Management, had been established in 1976, the year

previous to my arrival at Yale.

The Administrative Sciences Program shared its faculty and even a few of its classes with

the School of Organization Management, which offered a master's level degree in public and

private management.

In return, the SOM provided a brand new state-of-the-art facility to house both the doctoral

and master's programs in management,

which, by the way, was still being built when I arrived.

The vision of the School of Management, School of Organization and Management, and the purpose

of the new degree it offered, was to train managers for working in both government and business,

the so-called public and private sectors.

The school's founding dean, Bill Donaldson, wanted to create a cadre of managers who could

move freely between the worlds of government and business.

He took a personal interest in student admissions to the new program to ensure that every

student had interest and experience in both the public and private sectors.

He expected that half of the graduates of the program would launch their careers in the public sector and half in the private sector,

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