Kurt Uhlir
Summary
Today, we are joined by Kurt Uhlir of Ethereal Innovations, to learn about all of his successes, challenges, struggles, everything that goes into company culture in all the amazing businesses that he’s worked in. I would say the best people we’ve ever had chose the apprentice route, I know we had one guy, Walter, who was just the most amazing intern that we ever had, and it was that apprenticeship style where it’s like I wanted him to be at my side, kind of, the right-hand person for as long as we could keep him around. Kurt Uhlir: 14:32 Yeah, and in both cases, that means … [inaudible 00:14:35] reasons, too, is just like I think I’m the better leader because I’m helping to mentor others often, ’cause it’s very hard for me to see flaws in my own leadership style, my own character, even. Kurt Uhlir: 16:08 From an organization perspective, they’d done really well over a very short time, but they did not do well over the years ’cause they actually had so much family turmoil, ’cause when the leader was leading that way and spending so many hours in the office, all of his team was doing the same. Kurt Uhlir: 31:43 I was actually only at the White House because I’ve been telling stories and, kind of, being a servant leader for years, and it ended up being something pretty cool and a great experience.