Sublime

Asking more questions to draw out and evaluate what other leaders are thinking. Great questions test the wisdom and logic of an idea better than any “expert” opinion can and also develop the person who has to answer the question.

the use of power need not become the abuse of power.

Hsieh felt strongly that everyone, even senior executives, should take below-market compensation to work there because of the great internal culture the company offered.

With hindsight, I would have started with our leadership team of five.

Leadership is about the bottom line and • loving the people you work with. • making your community a better place. • feeling a sense of satisfaction at the end of every day. • leading employees who can’t imagine working anywhere else.

One of the first things I look for in an industry is scalability. I want to be able to envision how I’ll take a business from a few million dollars to tens of billions of dollars. What will be the path to do that, and how fast can we move along that path? Is the industry growing much faster than GDP so that we’ll probably generate top-line growth e

three main Herschend family objectives: a specified growth in profit so it is ‘a great long-term investment,’ to be a ‘great place to work for great people,’ and to ‘lead with love.’”