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It was about People

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It was the summer of 2007, and as I sat in my office as I did each early morning reviewing sales data from the day prior when the founder of  our company dropped in for a visit which was not uncommon at all. That particular morning our conversation went off script as he was interested in speaking with me on an impending acquisition our company was considering. We were reviewing a purchase opportunity of the 21 store division of the The Great A&P Company in New Orleans. It is amazing to think of it today, because at the time we only had 15 stores, and here we were about to absorb 21 locations into our company. Let me set the context, it wasn't unusual to have a morning visit into my office from our company founder. After all he spent his entire life connected to the produce industry, so he was always interested to know what the latest happenings were in our part of the business. So this visit started off no different, what was different is when he shifted the what the normal c
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Leadership in Giving

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  Leadership Is Giving When I was a young boy I recall an occasion when my dad, who was a hard worker all is life, had the opportunity to move into a supervisory role at his employer. My dad had always been a "hand" as he always referred to himself, as to say, he was a worker...told the person who was offering him the promotion that he did not want the promotion because it was too much trouble dealing with the on again, off again issues of dealing with personnel matters and as he told the story as I remember it, wasn't worth the aggravation and added stress he wanted no part of, he just wanted to do his job. This was the example I had as a young boy, I never thought of my dad as anything other than a strong, hard working and dependable person, which he most definitely was, but it always left a question in my mind. Why would he not want to be a boss, as I thought about it. My answer would come years later. When I entered the workforce as a teenager, actually at 13 year
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