Our Kind of Leader

I watched an incredible leader at work the other day. And I'm still touched by the experience.

I was catching a flight from Dallas to Atlanta, as I was in the middle of a weeklong business trip. It was the end of the day, and everyone on the plane was ready to get home. You could see it in their eyes. I had just settled into reading a magazine I'd been carrying with me for four days, when I saw a gentleman come out of the first class cabin to talk to the woman sitting in front of me.

He was probably 35 years old, and he had this gentle way about him. He was carrying his cell phone on his waist and holding the earpiece in his hand. You could tell he had a lot going on in his life -- he just had that look -- but you wouldn't know it by his presence. Not at all.

It turns out this woman works for him, and he wanted to know how she was planning to get home once the plane landed. She told him her husband was picking her up at the airport.

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