For Twenty Years My Father Told Everyone the Company Was His — Grandpa’s Box Revealed Who Secretly Owned the Controlling Sixty-Two Percent

I had finally understood how he did it.

You hold the power lightly, and you use it rarely, and only when it is necessary, and the rest of the time you let good people do good work.

The company had its best quarter in six years because, for the first time in a long time, it was being run by someone chosen for competence rather than for a last name.

That was the whole secret.

It had always been the whole secret.

Chapter 18 — The Clearest Head