Operating Principles

I was fortunate early in my career to be given a lot of responsibilities and I in turn embraced those responsibilities and gained results. One of my earliest lessons was to build a great team of people around you. Don’t be afraid of hiring someone who is smarter than you or has other skills much better than you – to build and grow a business, you need great people around you. If you plan on making all the decisions yourself, your business will eventually stagnate. So, what I did early on was to work with my management team and we developed a list of Operating Principles that were simple, but were meant to guide everyone in the organization how to operate with one another and to ensure we were using a common language in our various management styles. I have since used these operating principles for 20 years