Wise & True Leadership Lessons From My Tribe

Shifting Comments to Content

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Leadership lessons are a part of life. We all have a tribe of family, friends, coworkers, and acquaintances that can teach us a lesson or two.

I decided to call on my online tribe, collect a few stories, and grab some fresh content. The comments were few and far between, but we can turn the words into content and learn together.

Brian Hyatt

On November 30, 1977, my grandfather James Richey Wren passed from this life into his eternity. I loved this man dearly. He raised me and was like a Father to me. I never knew my biological father. My granddaddy, as I called him, was the only father figure I knew. On December 4, 1977, we laid his body in a grave at Summerfield United Methodist Church Cemetery. And that was it. My life as I knew it at 11 years old changed. To this day, I remember him telling me, “Son, if a job is worth doing, it is worth doing right.”

Grandfathers are so unique, and their words carry a lot of weight. Brian’s granddaddy was right. When we do anything right, we reap the reward of achievement and confidence.

Doing something right would mean doing the task to the best of your ability. That does not mean that someone else might not do it better. But it does mean that you…