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.
Sometimes You Just Want to Make a Big Pot of Beans
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It was cold here in Oklahoma last week. We got our first snow of the
season, and school was canceled. It’s moments like those when I feel like
making mys...
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