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Harris E. DELOACH, Jr.
President and CEO of Sonoco
Charles W. “Charlie” Coker, Sonoco Products Company’s current
Chairman of the Board of Directors and former CEO from 1976 to 1998,
once gave me these words of wisdom:
“Sonoco has prospered for over one hundred and four years because of
the achievements of its people. Such prolonged success can come from
nothing else. A company, after all, is a collection of people who create
products, make it all work to achieve financial results, and, ultimately,
create its reputation. The right people build businesses!”
I have found that the biggest successes and failures in business are most
often determined by whether or not the right people are in the right jobs.
You can have the best strategy, but it has no value without the right people
to execute it. Conversely, if you have the wrong strategy but the right
people, they will correct it. The right people truly do build businesses.
The right people build businesses
