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Thank you, Glenn.

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Where did this vision of positive influence and great leadership come from?

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I want to, we're not recording yet, are we?

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We are recording.

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We're just not live.

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Okay.

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I just wanted to mute my phone.

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Well, it started, I had an experience that where a gentleman who was a client of mine,

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and as often happens, if you work for someone for a period of time, they sometimes, and

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I've had some very good experiences, where they become personal friends.

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And that's what happened with this gentleman.

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And he became ill.

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And I one day get an email from someone who had worked for him that said he had passed

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away and it was going to be a memorial for him.

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And would I like to come?

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And I said, of course.

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So during that time, I began to think about him and his influence on me.

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And I realized that he had been a really big positive influence on me.

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And I started to think about some of those incidents.

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And I'd be glad to share some of those examples with you because they were pretty profound

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and certainly profound for me.

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And I realized I can't be the only person in the world that's had someone in their

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life that's been a positive influence.

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And I got shortly thereafter, I think actually later that day, I went to the memorial and

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met many of the people that I knew very well that I had worked with in his organization.

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And also several of them who had become personal friends and still are, by the way, I still

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meet up with them.

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And they had similar experience.

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Later that day, I called my son, who is a leader and a senior manager in the financial

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services industry.

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And I told him the story.

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And I said, I think there's a book there because I want to write about this because I think

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this impacted me.

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I said, what about you?

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He said, I have had the same experience.

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And if you write that book, I'd read it.

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Well, he's one of my biggest critics.

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I figured if he would read the book, that would be good.

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I said, well, how'd you like to write it with me?

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He said, I would love it, Dad.

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And so we wrote the first two books together.

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And so that was also a profound experience.

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But if you like, I can tell you a couple of the experiences that made him a positive influence

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on me.