Turbo Leadership Systems ^™

“The first law of success is concentration – to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.” - William Mathews

It was the winter of 1989 at around 9:00 in the morning. I had been working for approximately three hours out of doors in ten degree weather with a wind chill of at least zero or below.

The entrepreneurial journey parallels in some important ways the mythological hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is about traveling an unknown path, leaving behind the perceived security of their country, courageously facing the reality of uncertainty.

Roger, warehouse distribution center manager for an electrical wholesaler, told Session 9 of the Leadership Development Lab (LDL): “Last Friday Dennis, my freight out shipping clerk, went home sick.

I recently had breakfast with Doug, a 23-year old neighbor. One of our mutual friends asked me to take some time with him. After we got settled in I asked Doug what I call the “high school question.”

In the late 1970’s, I was working as a warehouse supervisor for a dental equipment manufacturing plant in Newberg, Oregon. I was in charge of taking yearend inventory of approximately 6,000 to 10,000 parts. The inventory had to be done in three days.

What is required to succeed in today’s fastpaced, ever changing, increasingly competitive environment? You must look ahead, look out over the horizon.

“In mid-summer of 1989, I was working in a small job shop in Sandy, Oregon. A friend and co-worker owned a small hydroplane race boat.

A couple of weeks ago, I had an opportunity to try what was for me a new employee correction method I had learned in the LDL, as well as utilize some of Turbo’s leadership principles.

“About six months ago, Mike, one of our warehousemen, transferred from our southeast location to our Beaverton warehouse. He was accustomed to a very slow paced environment compared to what he was going to be experiencing at our location.