First-Time Leaders

I was alone in a factory on a Sunday afternoon, wiring a cabinet. I was alone in a factory on a Sunday afternoon, wiring a cabinet. We were behind schedule. So I did what I had always done when things got tight — I stepped in and handled it myself. I had not taken a single day off in six months. At the time, I called that commitment. Looking back, I call it something else. It took standing in that empty factory, doing work that wasn't mine to do, for something to finally land