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Here's your success mentor, Darin Hardy.

Good morning, so would you like to know how to create more value, get noticed and build

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Well, then you're going to love today's Darin Daily.

One of my favorite interviews of all time was with the great Jack Welch.

Now you know that Jack is heralded as one of the greatest ever corporate business leaders,

not only because of his results, which increased GE's value from 4,000 percent under his 20-year

leadership, but also because how he changed the game of business leadership in totality.

The Welch way is one of today's most studied, talked about, and emulated management and

leadership philosophies.

As great leaders usually do, they don't just affect change at the office.

They inspire greatness in everyone around them at all times, even with the lawn boy.

So in 1969, 13-year-old Terry Holland knocked on an anonymous front door to solicit new

customers for his budding lawn business.

Little did he know he just knocked on the front door of the greatest corporate icon of

the 20th century, Jack Welch.

So when Jack opened the door and Terry made his pitch, the first question Jack asked was,

how much money do you want to mow my lawn?

Terry responded,

I really don't give a price, I let people pay me whatever they think is fair.

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