Why the barber of the town is "the best manager"

ByPawpaw 67

To "people who are aiming" and "respecting people"Steve JobsYaBill GatesThere are many people who name the name. However, it is said that the "best managers" for Don Pottinger who started his own business is a barber of a certain town. Why he calls a barber who has made a great invention, but did not produce enormous wealth, why he calls "the best managers" reveals the reason in his own blog.

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Pottinger met Dennis, a barber, when I was thirteen when my parents divorced. At that time, Mr. Pottinger said that the absence of his father was a big loss in two ways, at a subtle time when "It is not a child, but it is far from an adult". One meaning is that it lost the human of the role of father, the other meaning that he lost "familiar barber". There has been no father who had cut the hair so far, and Mr. Pottinger worked with her mother to find a barber.

The clipper barber shop where Dennis came visiting at that time greatly changes his life. Pottinger's father, who was proficient in various things, was only poor at cutting his hair, and he was constantly being teased by school children for asymmetrical hair style. However, since I came to go to a professional barber shop, I was not kidnapped, but on the contrary, I had to go through a barber shop more than to have my hair cut.


Even just 16 years since Mr. Pottinger visited for the first time, there is little change in the Clipper barber shop. On the wallHarriet · Tabman,Martin Luther King Jr.,Malcolm · XA poster of a great person such as a man is drawn on the white board, a word is written on the white board on a daily basis, and a man of dark skin is standing on the corner of the room, which is tall and shoulder wide. That is shopkeeper Dennis. If you do not have scissors and you do not have an apron, when a customer opens a door and enters the store with a figure that many people will mistake as a basketball player or something, he will immediately speak with a low voice a welcome message . If the customer was in a hurry, Mr. Dennis said to recommend sitting by saying "Do not make that so."


Pottinger says, "When you sit in front of him, the world will disappear." There is only Denise and himself, he talks about everyday things, that is, work as family, politics, sports, entrepreneurs. We exchange knowledge and ideas with each other, discuss issues facing the black community and share what Pottinger experienced as an engineer and entrepreneur. Mr. Dennis listens enthusiastically, sometimes doing thoughtful questions and advice. He was a therapist, an ideal father, and a friend. When someone accomplishes a wonderful thing, it is a person who praises for the first time and a person who points out the first time when it is likely to make some mistake. When I graduated from college, before the interview, on the wedding day, he gave me a haircut for free and he bought a bicycle for Mr. Pottinger 's son. When Dennis finished the haircut, he always said "to hold my wife, mother or son," and whenever I left the store, Mr. Pottinger felt like I got bigger than a haircut.


Dennis decided to have a store 20 years ago. As a place to open a shop, he chose "South Decalb" which can not be said to be wonderful for compliments. South Decalb is an area with a lot of poor working-class black people, the most famous one is about rap and late night gunfire cases. The landmark of the town was only a morbid mall. Still Dennis chose the place because the people in the town were seeking him.

Mr. Dennis seems to have envisioned the barber shop to become something like the light of the lighthouse for the town. And that is reality, Mr. Pottinger and his brother are young, and even now it is benefiting to go to the Cliper barber shop.


Mr. Pottinger, raised in South Decal, says, "There were few men who should be respected except Denise." It is Pottinger who left the town once, but after graduating from high school, I will start living in South Decal again. There are reasons "Because my mother was still in town", but another reason is to have Denis cut his hair. There is another barber shop in the vicinity of the house, but Mr. Pottinger goes a distance 30 minutes by car with him cutting his hair. That is because there is a deeper relationship between the two people than the customer and shopkeeper, and the simple work of "getting my hair cut" when going to the barber shop will change to an unparalleled experience. Dennis tells Mr. Pottinger, "Do not escape from your own roots, accept them," and tell you what the father / husband / community activist / entrepreneur should be. Despite being a barber of the town, Mr. Dennis said "He is a man who embodies the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.", said Mr. Pottinger.