In this "Art of Manliness" podcast, widower Herb Knoll notes that a few months after his wife died of cancer, one of his subordinates at the bank where he worked came up to him and told him "the whole floor misses your laughter." It strikes me that Mr. Knoll was an extremely fortunate man to have a subordinate who had the chutzpah to come up to him and say that, and moreover it says a lot about his leadership that this subordinate got the nerve to do so as well.
The rest of the podcast is worthwhile as well, saying an awful lot about how men do, or do not, seek community in their time of trouble.
Clearing The Decks: 4/19 Edition
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In one sense, this blog hasn’t changed much in the 22 years I’ve been
running it. I get up early, I write stuff. For the past 20 years, it’s
doubled as sho...
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