Thank you, Glenn.
Where did this vision of positive influence and great leadership come from?
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Well, it started, I had an experience that where a gentleman who was a client of mine,
and as often happens, if you work for someone for a period of time, they sometimes, and
I've had some very good experiences, where they become personal friends.
And that's what happened with this gentleman.
And he became ill.
And I one day get an email from someone who had worked for him that said he had passed
away and it was going to be a memorial for him.
And would I like to come?
And I said, of course.
So during that time, I began to think about him and his influence on me.
And I realized that he had been a really big positive influence on me.
And I started to think about some of those incidents.
And I'd be glad to share some of those examples with you because they were pretty profound
and certainly profound for me.
And I realized I can't be the only person in the world that's had someone in their
life that's been a positive influence.
And I got shortly thereafter, I think actually later that day, I went to the memorial and
met many of the people that I knew very well that I had worked with in his organization.
And also several of them who had become personal friends and still are, by the way, I still
meet up with them.
And they had similar experience.
Later that day, I called my son, who is a leader and a senior manager in the financial
services industry.
And I told him the story.
And I said, I think there's a book there because I want to write about this because I think
this impacted me.
I said, what about you?
He said, I have had the same experience.
And if you write that book, I'd read it.
Well, he's one of my biggest critics.
I figured if he would read the book, that would be good.
I said, well, how'd you like to write it with me?
He said, I would love it, Dad.
And so we wrote the first two books together.
And so that was also a profound experience.
But if you like, I can tell you a couple of the experiences that made him a positive influence
on me.