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Chapter Three: Get Personal

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When I began writing this book, I shared it with my mother. She liked the idea, and she told me that in all her leadership positions, people asked her the key to . . . . . 54 . . . . . being such a good manager. At first, I didn’t hear her advice because I was too busy thinking of my mom as a leader. My mom? Dad was the one structuring billion-dollar deals overseas, not mom. What did she do? This was the woman who stayed at home with eight kids. She wasn’t some bigwig in some high-rise building. What management, Mom? The PTA? The church activities committee? How is that management?

Then it hit me, and I realized ...

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