A leader compares building business relationships to his 39-year marriage: both need time, diverse personalities, and patience through inevitable conflicts. Strong teams take decades to develop, not quick fixes.
Well, it's not easy because good, great leadership is about building relationships with people. And I often equate it to marriage. You know, my wife and I will be married 39 years this coming week. And, you know, in marriage, and again, particularly in relationships in the business world, it's a coming together of multiple personalities that are coming together from different backgrounds, with different experiences, with different makeups, whether it be ethnicity or whatever. And what are you trying to do? You're trying to put them together to now work as a cohesive unit. And in marriage, you've got 30, 40, 50 years hopefully to do that. And there's going to be bumps in the road.
