Everyone Needs A Sam Study Guide – Chapter 1

With an “imminent” release of the study guide to Everyone Needs A Sam, I thought I’d post various chapters over the next few days so you can get a feel for what’s enclosed. Here’s the first chapter, the format is the same for all twelve chapters: CHAPTER ONE (Sam)   The first chapter provides an overview of the entire book, introducing the idea of “Sams.” In a...

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Leon Thompson: My Sam

When I was three years of age my father abandoned my mother and me. Drugs, alcohol and womanizing were the culprit. I never saw my father again until I was 26 years of age. My mother was very young and without support and returned home. During the years that followed I was raised, for the most part, by my grandparents. My grandmother’s heritage was Pennsylvania Dutch Quaker and my grandfather...

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Otis Winters: My Sam

Everyone who chooses a career in business needs someone to help them navigate the unknown shoals. I was a naive young man starting a new company and tended to believe everything I was told. Fortunately, a wise man crossed my path. He was the senior partner of a regional accounting firm and became the Chairman of my Board of Directors. He was approximately the same age as my father and like most...

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Table Of Contents

“Everyone Needs A Sam” focuses on seeking wisdom and finding mentors on your life journey. These Sams are the ones standing beside you and guarding your back. Over the next couple of weeks I will be highlighting excerpts from the book.  We hope you’ll take a moment and submit a guest post for consideration about a Sam in your life so others can learn from what you learned. So...

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