-: I had a managing director, his name was Nick Moore,
From a career perspective, who pulled me
into his office one day, and he said,
I was young, he said, in my 20s,
he goes, "You complain a lot."
He said, "You're one of the smartest men I know.
You're smarter than I am, you can run this company.
But, you're going to fail.
You're going to fail because you do not know
how to lead a team that you perceive
to not have the knowledge and intelligence that you have."
Right?
Now, let's say that I'm working in a hotel
and someone is cleaning a room
and I may look down on that individual
because I don't see the value,
the intellectual value that they bring.
And that was the point that he was trying to get.
It taught me how to manage folks who are older
than I am, who are more mature,
who have the experience of doing the grunt work,
and that I needed to take a step back and say,
"How do I manage someone to their strength?"