The Best Business Mentor You’ll Ever Have? It’s Your Dad

Some of your fathers wore suits and worked for the Man or were the Man themselves. Others were determined to do their own thing, rising to new heights or struggling like Willy Loman. But no matter what your dad happened to do for a living, chances are you’ll have no greater mentor in business than him.

As Father’s Day approaches, I find myself thinking about my own dad, a brilliant and iconoclastic architect who died much too young of cancer. Even though he was easily able to go into the family business—a hugely successful chain of DIY paint stores—my dad had other, bigger dreams. He wanted to build buildings. And to realize his dreams, he coined and lived by a set of principles I still follow to this day.

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