Wander the halls of the Yale School of Management and it’s easy to believe, in the words of the immortal Little Mermaid, “She’s got everything.” Already state-of-the-art classrooms rest in massive modules, ready to move as whiteboards, Wi-Fi, and whatever’s next become inevitable relics. Theretired brigadier general/skydiving instructor/social psychology Ph.D. who’s invited a group of us — all contributors to a recent book, Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today’s Leaders — to speak in his leadership development class is every inch the sort of plain-spoken iconoclast I’d want shaping would-be titans of industry. And self-aware students pose questions like — What do we do when people want to hate us?

So when SOM leadership coach Laurie Kelley asks me over Pinot Grigio later what I think her high-flying Millennial charges most need to succeed, I linger a moment in my glass.