Some of the earliest lessons Richard Tucker, CEO and co-founder of Arlington Capital, learned about being an effective leader, he gleaned at the tender age of nine when he was still a young boy fresh in his elementary school years. Tucker was raised by parents who inherently displayed the tenets of great leadership in everything they did and grasped every opportunity to inculcate these attributes in Tucker, too.
When his parents enrolled him in athletics, Tucker was taught the importance of taking ownership and the benefits of teamwork. At home his parents reinforced the qualities of integrity and hard work. When he became part of the student council, he was taught to take ownership of his actions and the power of admitting errors and following them up with swift amends.
At the time, he didn’t associate these qualities to the notion of leadership per se, and he didn’t realize that in the process of these experiences, his parents were ingraining in him lifelong skills that would ultimately help him achieve a long string of successes in a matter of decades—accomplishments that most people can only dream of achieving in a single lifetime.
A native to central Dekalb in the fifties, Tucker’s family was strictly a middle-class working family, with his father being employed as a car dealership general manager. At the age of 14, Tucker drew inspiration from his father’s commitment to his career and decided to apply for a part-time job at the dealership, too. As he watched his dad command a small team of people, he learned that leading by example to deliver your best work to motivate others was the hallmark of some of his dad’s best leadership traits.
Many days after school, Tucker would hop on a bus and ride to the dealership to work alongside his dad and see him in action, returning home with him at the close of the workday to spot his mom taking great pride in managing their home and later her banking career with…
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