You Are Full of Promise: Life Lessons for Leaders
By Bob Danzig
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Bob Danzig
bob danzig grew up in foster homes. moved from teenage office boy at the albany, N.Y. Times Union to publisher (1200 employee-colleagues) in 19 years. he then became nationwide CEO of all Hearst newspapers for 20 years. a multi billion revenue company with 6,000 employee/ colleagues. Author of 8 books/ inducted into the Speakers Hall of Fame/ University professor/ and now Dean of The Hearst Management Institute---the corporations Leadership enhancement program.
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You Are Full of Promise - Bob Danzig
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Chapter One
YOU ARE FULL OF PROMISE
Narrator: Can you speak about the eight words that transformed your life?
Bob: I grew up in several foster homes in Albany, New York. When I was around 9 years old and moving from my fourth to my fifth foster home, the social worker in charge of my case leaned into me, looked me deeply in my eyes and said, Never forget, you are worthwhile.
Over the course of that year, Mae Morse, who was a tall, angular-looking woman with grayish-blonde hair, (I can see her as if she were here this morning) never finished a discussion where she didn’t say to me, You are worthwhile.
I had never heard those words before. Until she crossed my path, I had never had anybody tell me I had consequence or value. Those words had a profound impact on me. They bathed my spirit and gave me a sense of purpose.
Narrator: Can you tell us about the other affirming words that impacted your life?
Bob: I want to start by telling you the way you get to be president of Hearst Newspapers. You get fired from your first job. You see, when you grow up in the foster care system, you’re pushed out when you graduate from high school. Eighty-five percent of the kids in foster care don’t go to college. You go to a room that’s rented someplace and get a little job.
My first job was in the mattress department at Montgomery Ward’s in upstate New York. In the mattress department, those of us who were new went to work each day and climbed up these ladders. There were bins full of mattresses. Across each bin, there was a catwalk. You climb up in the morning, and they’d yell out, B6.
You push that baby off. It would come down and land on a trampoline. Then, they’d wheel it out to a customer.
I went to work there in June. By early September, I was pretty good at that catwalk. I was moving all over the place. One day, I thought I heard the foreman say C8 and pushed that mattress off. You know what happened? No trampoline. It hit the foreman instead. He looked up from the floor, and I had my first corporate consequence. Get out,
he said.
That night, I went to a dance where I met a high school buddy. He said, What are you doing?
I said, I just got fired from Montgomery Ward.
He said, That’s a contradiction in terms. That’s like getting fired from McDonald’s. You just have to show up and be a warm body.
I replied, "Well, the C8 hit him and there was no