The Best Boss I Ever Had

Gresh and I have done a couple of blogs about great guys for whom we’ve worked, and in thinking about that last night I asked myself:  Who’s the best boss I ever had?  The answer was both immediate and easy:  Captain Omer McCants.  I was a young lieutenant in Korea and Captain McCants was an old man (he was a 28-year-old Captain).  Captain McCants was my battery commander and he was a major influence on my approach to work, leadership, and life in general.  While remembering those good old days, I did a Google search and this appeared:

Nah, can’t be, I thought.  But it was.  Captain McCants retired as a Lt. Colonel and went on to do other great things.  Watching the video above instantly took me back 45 years, and listening to the “old man” was about as enjoyable an experience as I’ve ever had.   I think you’ll enjoy it, too.  There are several videos about Colonel McCants (check the link below the video when you go to the page) and my advice is to listen to them all.  I did.  You can thank me later.

Gresh and I have talked about adding an ExNotes page with links to our “Back in the Day” stories about the great guys we’ve known, and we’ll get around to that in the near future.  I’ve been around some great leaders.  Do you remember the movie Apocalypse Now and the guy Robert Duvall played, Colonel Kilgore?  There actually was a Colonel Kilgore in the US Army and I reported to him (he was nothing like the guy Robert Duvall portrayed).  I worked for a couple of company presidents in the aerospace business who changed the way that industry worked, and I’ll tell you about them at some point.   I know Gresh has amazing stories, too.  I’ve heard them.  Stay tuned, folks.  There’s more good stuff coming.