Leader behind $800M business shares success secrets

From the importance of profit sharing to not bothering employees on weekends, retired Southwest Florida executive Glenn Hasse has learned lots of business lessons.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 6:00 p.m. April 6, 2018
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Glenn Hasse, left, former president of Ryt-way Industries, recently spoke at an event in Naples organized by wealth consulting firm Benson Blackburn. Michael Benson, right, is the chairman and CEO of Benson Blackburn.
Glenn Hasse, left, former president of Ryt-way Industries, recently spoke at an event in Naples organized by wealth consulting firm Benson Blackburn. Michael Benson, right, is the chairman and CEO of Benson Blackburn.
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When Glenn Hasse was a young entrepreneur, he learned a valuable lesson in leadership from his company’s production line foreman.

The foreman dropped a length of chain on Hasse’s desk. Pushing the chain with his finger made the chain crumple. Pulling it kept it straight. “This is leadership,” the foreman told his boss, Hasse. “You don’t push anybody.”

 

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