Thanks so much for your visit and kind comments. But I must say that, however much you praise the volley, you never fail to ace the return:

” . . . you could always tell when my aunt came into the room by the look of joy on my uncle’s face.”

Wow.

Thanks again, and always, for your visit, your penetrating observations, and your inestimable work.

Nice post. So much of the discussion of leadership leaves out the doing part. You wrote about this yesterday. It’s a bit like romantic literature.

There the stories are all about falling in love, the torrid glance across a crowded room and the role of destiny. Romantic literature doesn’t have much to say about getting up early to feed the baby or cooking or cleaning or taking out the garbage, but that’s how life is lived for most of us.

And through it all there are people like my aunt and uncle who put together a very successful life doing all of that and kept the romance alive and well. I realized that years ago when I visited them and suddenly understood that you could always tell when my aunt came into the room by the look of joy on my uncle’s face.