11 Lessons My Father Taught Me About Managing & Leading Teams
• Buffer  leading and managing lessons  This is not going to be
the traditional type of post where I write about SEO, Content,
Infographics, or Web Design, but instead a look back at what I
have learned from my father about managing and leading people.
My father grew up in Ridgewood, NJ. His father was a brilliant
engineer (who held many patents), and his mother was a school
teacher for close to 50 years. He attended Paul Smiths College
in northern NY State (Paul Smiths, NY to be exact) and during
the summers worked on my grandparents farm (which is where he
met my mother).  Unlike many people today, my father held the
same job with the same packaging company (Jefferson Smurfit,
which later became Smurfit Stone, and then Stone Container) for
close to 30 years. He started in the maintenance department
where he fixed the large machinery, learned the ins and outs of
every machine and kept the factory running. During his 30 years
at the plant he w