Daniel Pink, the author of four books on business management and speaker at CUNA's upcoming America's Credit Union Conference, is upfront about coming to his interest in business and management accidentally.

"I don't have a business degree," he confessed during a recent interview with Credit Union Times. "I have a law degree, but I have never practiced as a lawyer," he said, explaining his time at Yale Law School as something that seemed to make the most sense at the time.

Instead, Pink said, with a law degree in hand and an interest in public policy, he found himself drawn to working in different capacities for different politicians until, finally, he wound up as a speechwriter for Vice President Al Gore.

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