Detail-Obsessed Leadership Walks

"Directors, workers, foremen, discover an outstanding boss! With an astonishing manual dexterity: with his hypersensitive hands, he feels the density of spindle banks’ coils and judges the appropriate quality; in weaving, he never fails to run his fingers between the warp threads to appreciate their proper arrangement. During these visits, conducted at a brisk pace, nothing escapes the master’s eye, which inevitably falls on the detail that irritates him, the flaw that seemed invisible."

"No matter! All are struck by the knowledge of the trade and the titan strength of this man who “swallows” dozens of workshops without concern for time, fatigue, or even his stomach. While they feel theirs in their heels, the boss will stop for a quarter of an hour, at most, in the middle of the afternoon to ingest a slice of ham and resume his masterful parade with renewed vigor, leaving behind the memory of an exemplary leader: “A boss,” he says, “is merely the one among his workers who works the most!”"

"These top-tier consultants are required for hours on end to give their opinion on the placement of a button, the size of a lapel, the length of a hem, the height of a pocket, on these thousand and one details whose multifaceted eye of Boussac never ceases to want as long as he has not had the chance to detect “the small flaw.” When luckily he discovers that the thread used to sew the buttons of a coat comes from a different batch than the one used for the topstitching, this detail, to his greatest delight, takes on major proportions and triggers the signal of the rages long since entered into the traditional folklore of his factory or workshop visits!"