When Karl was "Tapped on the Shoulder"

A document with the following came across Karl's desk while he was CEO of a leading packaging company:

"For every man there comes that special moment when he is physically tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing - unique to him and fitted to his talents.

What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for the work which would be his finest hour."
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"I knew at that very moment, as my eyes welled with tears, that I was meant to be doing something other, something greater than what I was doing. Not that there was no value in what I was doing, because there was, but I had felt that it was not enough for me, and I knew then that it was not what God wanted me to do. That, I knew for sure."

- Karl R. Zimmer III