by Tommy Spaulding | Jan 23, 2024 | Blog
There’s an unwritten rule in the publishing world to not write about Chick-Fil-A and a handful of other companies. Not because these companies have done something wrong. Quite the opposite. Because these companies have done a lot of things right. I wrote about...
by Tommy Spaulding | Jan 16, 2024 | Blog
Last month, a few days before Christmas, my good friend Brian Smith invited me to lunch. He wanted me to attend his annual holiday luncheon with his leadership team. Brian and his wife, Mikelle, own two Keller Williams Real Estate offices in Denver, Colorado. They...
by Tommy Spaulding | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog
I attended a wedding in Iowa this past June that I’m still thinking about. I’ve been to a hundred or more weddings in my lifetime, but this one was beyond special. I’m half Italian, so growing up in New York, most weekends were spent attending family functions – many...
by Tommy Spaulding | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
We lost a great corporate leadership and management guru last month. But I hope we don’t lose the great lessons this man has taught the world. Jack Welch built General Electric into an industrial and financial powerhouse. As chairman and CEO of GE from 1981 to 2001,...
by Tommy Spaulding | Nov 19, 2019 | Blog
On Friday, I called Cathy DeGraff on her business line this past Friday at 5 p.m. for the very last time. Cathy DeGraff, has been my business manager, executive director of our National Leadership Academy and Global Youth Leadership Academy, and chief operating...
