110 The Trusted Leader
The Coach had worked with young men for many
years at Arlington High School (a fictitious name) and had
been the only coach ever to win five consecutive state bas-
ketball championships—all after his beloved wife, Emma,
died. The relationship between Carlos and the Coach
grows as they meet every couple of weeks at Tony’s, a
small Italian restaurant in town, where Carlos asks ques-
tions and the Coach offers his perspective in his typically
understated manner. Carlos eagerly absorbs the Coach’s
solid advice and takes it back to the workplace to test it in
the business world.
By contrast, Carlos’s boss, Jim Talon, also gave Carlos
advice: To go into his new leadership position strong, to
take charge, to show them ...