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The Best Business Advice I Learned From A Simple Yet Extraordinary Man
While a school MBA can teach you the nuts and bolts of running a business, who teaches you about the kind of character you should aspire to develop to be a good leader?
This isn’t a millionaire story. The person I want to tell you about today didn’t invent some famous company or strike it stinking rich. But he achieved something I believe is worth just as much: a good, happy life.
He never complained, his life was truly happy, he married the love of his life despite family and societal divides, and he is what I would call self-made. He returned to school later to get his GED, which is an alternative to the traditional high school diploma. Furthermore, he served in WWII and was deployed to Hawaii, where he was an aeroplane mechanic for the Air Force fighting the Japanese.
My maternal grandfather, Nino Francisco Diani, never ran a business. In fact, born poor into an immigrant family with a stay-at-home mother, an artisan father, and three siblings, my grandfather had to drop out of school at the age of fourteen to help his family.
Despite this, I learned skills from him that strongly formed the values I use today as an entrepreneur.
