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!””