The Meeting

I entered the meeting and was surrounded by about 20 other Managers with Blake at the head of the table and his assistant at the other end. I thought it was great he did this for her because really it was her job to record all the details and knew Blake well enough to know the things he wanted to hear. One by one each manager presented their challenges, their situations, their requests, etc. It was lengthy, to say the least, but a great opportunity to see what could be done to help everyone and Blake truly seemed to take an interest in each person even offering congratulations for one manager’s new baby, another’s son graduating high school and condolences to another for losing their grandmother. The more they went down the line the more attractive Blake became to me because he took an interest in each of his employees and you could tell it was appreciated and it seemed any of them would go the extra mile for Blake just because of who he was and how he showed his appreciation to each o