you an opportunity. What you do with it is yours.”
Before I left, he offered one final piece of advice.
“Never become so important that the people around you are afraid to succeed without you.”
I have remembered those words ever since.
For seven years, I thought loyalty meant giving everything I had to my employer.
Richard taught me that genuine leadership means helping others become capable of standing on their own.
I entered his office that Friday believing my career was ending.
I walked out with a responsibility I
