Rather than describing a couple of humorous incidents such as the campus cop questioning me when I laughed about the graffiti outside commons, “Dear Billy, why do we need God, we have Dean Whiteman” or what to do with the parking meter that a roommate kicked over and then carried back on his shoulder all the way from York Street to Silliman, it seems more appropriate to describe what course at Yale has been most impactful. Hands down, it was Chris Argyris’s course in Organizational Theory. The idea that leadership style of a manager affects the response of those who report to him was a revelation. We read and discussed Douglas McGregor’s short book The Human Side of Enterprise. He described two contrasting styles of management – theory x that is autocratic and theory y that is participative, which respectively have the effects of subservience and undermining as compared to cooperation and commitment. Parenthetically, meanness could be added to Musk’s theory x style.