Number three, promote and retain those people. Number four, let your people and the business evolve. Your model has to be evolving, he added, if you have been listening to your customers. The elder Shook, now 80, was a p-47 Thunderbolt squadron commander in World War II and later flew in Korea before entering private business. People are the basis for everything else.
Values are what define and give our lives direction.
Relationships are the means through which we interact with our world. The first and most important element is people. And speaking of relationships, Mike also has a brother in a senior management position at Strategic. Every time a football player goes to ply his trade, he s got to play from the ground up from the soles of his feet right up to his head. Every inch of him has to play.