Award-winning Publix managers reveal leadership secrets

Running a Publix, or even overseeing a dozen Publix locations, is more than apples and oranges. The people side, with listening skills at the front of the line, requires a lot of attention, too.

Julian Agollari has been with Publix since 2004.
Julian Agollari has been with Publix since 2004.
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Julian Agollari’s American Dream, when he moved from Albania to the States with his wife and their baby daughter some 25 years ago, started on the floor. Not just at work, but in the family’s Southwest Florida apartment. “We slept on the floor for six months,” Agollari says. “We did that until we could afford a mattress.” 

 

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