{"id":5868,"date":"2019-09-11T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T17:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2022-07-09T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T07:32:00","slug":"the-best-boss-i-ever-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/11\/the-best-boss-i-ever-had\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Boss I Ever Had"},"content":{"rendered":"

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:\u00a0 Who’s the best boss I ever had? \u00a0The answer was both immediate and easy:\u00a0 Captain Omer McCants.\u00a0 I was a young lieutenant in Korea and Captain McCants was an old man (he was a 28-year-old Captain).\u00a0 Captain McCants was my battery commander and he was a major influence on my approach to work, leadership, and life in general.\u00a0 While remembering those good old days, I did a Google search and this appeared:<\/p>\n

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Nah, can’t be, I thought.\u00a0 But it was.\u00a0 Captain McCants retired as a Lt. Colonel and went on to do other great things.\u00a0 Watching the video above<\/a> instantly took me back 45 years, and listening to the “old man” was about as enjoyable an experience as I’ve ever had. \u00a0 I think you’ll enjoy it, too.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I did.\u00a0 You can thank me later.<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 I’ve been around some great leaders.\u00a0 Do you remember the movie Apocalypse Now<\/em> and the guy Robert Duvall played, Colonel Kilgore?\u00a0 There actually was a Colonel Kilgore in the US Army and I reported to him (he was nothing like the guy Robert Duvall portrayed).\u00a0 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. \u00a0 I know Gresh has amazing stories, too.\u00a0 I’ve heard them.\u00a0 Stay tuned, folks.\u00a0 There’s more good stuff coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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:\u00a0 Who’s the best boss I ever had? \u00a0The answer was both immediate and easy:\u00a0 Captain Omer McCants.\u00a0 I was a young lieutenant in Korea and Captain McCants was an … Continue reading “The Best Boss I Ever Had”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[392,2879],"tags":[858,857],"class_list":["post-5868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-in-the-day","category-mentors","tag-leadership","tag-omer-mccants"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}