A leader reflects on his aggressive past, throwing chairs and phones, and winning two Entrepreneur of the Year awards in UK recruitment. He says his team's view of him matters most, and attributes criticism to jealousy while acknowledging he's working to become a better person.
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I lead from the front, right? People— I don't, I don't have people join me that quit. Yeah, I've had stories where people said I used to chuck chairs at people, I chuck phones at people. I never knew that, so maybe it might be someone's dream, but I don't know. But people might have this perception about me. It's jealousy. Beat my track record. I won 2 Entrepreneur of the Year awards last year, okay? No one's ever done that in Great Britain and the recruitment industry, okay? I believe it's jealousy. I believe it's people can see that I'm going places But if you look at my team, they'll tell you the type of leader I really am, and that's all that matters. Oh, that's all I care about. Yeah, now it's all I care about because now it's about, okay, you can criticize me, but you can't criticize where my business is going. Exactly. And that's the big difference. And that's why I said to you about the self-aware, the self-analyze, the self-discovery and stuff like that. I've done that because I wanted to be a better person. Yeah. And yeah, I might have done some shitty things in the past. We all have. Exactly.
