Three Leadership Lessons Learned – as a Paper Boy

My first paid job was delivering newspapers. Six days a week for three years or so I slung about a hundred papers from one end of Sedro-Wooley, Washington’s Jameson Street to the other. That was thirteen blocks of out-and-back or zig-zag, depending on whether I wanted to end up back at home or playing Zaxxon at the corner store.

It wasn’t a bad gig really. I could set my own pace as