Stay Home

"Your job was to stay home."
Four words from a football coach that took decades to fully understand - and eventually became the philosophy behind an entire career.
Chuck McClure started on a factory floor in west Texas and worked his way to President and minority owner of a manufacturing company. The road between those two points was anything but straight. Three marriages. A corporate rise and a humbling fall. A heart attack at forty-one. Two years of rejection letters. A Christmas Eve wedding with no job and a family who thought his future wife had lost her mind.
This is not a book of theories. It is a life - lived forward and understood backward. From the boss who asked to see the list, to the pastor who modeled servant leadership, to the wife who taught him to reflect, to the Vistage speaker who reminded a room full of executives that values without a keeper are just words on a wall.
In these pages you will find a complete framework for the leader who came up through the ranks and is now drowning in the transition - how to delegate with purpose, prioritize with discipline, triage problems before they become crises, build a culture of real loyalty, and develop leaders who develop leaders.
But more than a system, you will find a story. One that proves the ceiling above you is not fixed. That wisdom can come from anywhere if the door is open. That the broken places are not the end of the story - they are the curriculum.
And that the best way to get to the next level is to intentionally mentor your way out of the one you are in.