Finding purpose in a career in veterinary medicine
Andy Anderson, DVM, MBA, shares his unusual path to a career in veterinary medicine and how he found a calling in animal health
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Not everybody follows the same path to a career in veterinary medicine. Andy Anderson, DVM, MBA, explains what brought him back to animal health after 10 years.
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Andy Anderson, DVM, MBA: I think that purpose is really unlocked... It's in, you; it's a discovery process. When I work with organizations to discover their core values, you go into the meeting, and there's the leadership team or whatever, and you go, "Okay, what are your core values?" And they go, "Well, we don't have any, you know, we haven't done this exercise." No, you have them; you just haven't discovered them yet...Purpose t is about unlocking and discovering that.
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