He didn't once mention the word in his hour-long speech except to joke that the posting of American troops in Saudi Arabia in 1991 meant that 199 million beers were not consumed that year. The rest was a stock motivational presentation on leadership that has kept him busy on the talk circuit for years. I don't know what it is, but I recognize it when I see it. He went on to give several definitions of leadership in fortune-cookie truisms. The true rewards of leadership come from leadership itself.
Failure is contagious but success is infectious.
To conclude he observed, with an apparent blind spot on Euro-Vegas, how the rest of the world is trying to be like America. I took some Sulfamethoxazole and headed for the beer exhibits to look for stormin' boredom antibodies. The Three Stooges' beer booth looked like a good stop. The beer was launched in 1998 by Massachusetts-based Panther Brewing Co. and skipped microbrewery status by selling more than 600,000 cases in its first year. The name was chosen for name-recognition in an American market saturated with 2,000 brands.