Creating opportunities part of fairness

My first real lessons of fairness came on the hardwood. My opportunity to play basketball from high school through college taught me to respect the rules of the game, to demonstrate good sportsmanship and humility regardless of the score and to treat teammates and opponents with equal respect. Though every leader on the court is competitive, I was fortunate to play for coaches like Wendy Schuller, who led with integrity and stressed fair play and conduct over a win-loss record.

But members of our team did not have the same talents, nor did they have the same roles. My job at 6-foot was to occu...