very well and I enjoyed working for him. At the beginning I wondered (chuckle) but I learned a lot
from him. People want to respect their boss. They want their boss to be a good guy; they don’t want
their boss to be a screamer; they don’t want their boss – they don’t want to think bad of their boss if
that makes sense to you. They don’t want that. That’s what I learned from him. And then I had
severalwould reinforce that to me screamers, John Wayne– even though I got -type guys who
along with them and in fact even liked them in most cases, I never had any respect for them and the way
they operated. But you know, that’s the way it went.
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me was the ultimate people person. He was, you know, technically competent – a real subject matter
expert in most things but that wasn’t his strong suit. His strong suit was that he was just plain a people
person. have time. He respected everybody. He treated He made time for people when he didn’t
everyone with enormous respect and, and, as a result, people were ready to die for him ... I learned
a lot from him because when I first started working for him, this guy’s spending way too much time
talking to guys and we need to get going or we need to be doing more training, we need to be more
exercises and we don’t need to be, you know, making sure everybody’s doing ok. Make them do
stuff and we’ll decide they’re okWorld War II - what I, I don’t want to ping on the , which was the
World War II leadership style matters was, did you perform your mission, you – all that really
know? Well we performed our mission, ok, that was great. But the second guy that I consider an
enormous mentor, he was that and I just learned ...
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