Glenn, where did this vision of positive influence
and great leadership come from?
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've 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.
So I figured if he would read the book, that would be good.
I said to him, well, how would 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.
I think the red five stars were really cool, because it's
like you know when something Please Club and Idol
play together and it could really
be something really interesting.
So these were the four books and they didn't sound so bad.
And the fourth book is the book about auditioning.
All these were really touching.