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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

He influenced my life. My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). It influenced what I’ve preached for the last 30+ years: determine who your stakeholders are. He was 65. I only met him once. I later reorganized his company.