I learned how to manage a jewellery store under the tutelage of Jack Siebert. It wasn’t so much a matter of teaching me about running a store, as much as it was a matter of teaching me about myself, self-development of my own potential, thereby enabling me to run a store. Jack was a leader, an enabler, in the true sense of the word. It likely came from his having been in the miltary. Jack had the unique capability not found in a lot of people in a position of authority. He knew how to apologize when he knew he had made one angry.
I remember a principle from a People’s Jewellers course that I took in Toronto in 1973. One of the principles of the course was the qualities that a leader must have to be effective. “A leader’s success is contingent on time, distance, attention, energy, knowlege, and personatity.” Jack was a leader, even when he wasn’t around. His “magnetism” compelled you to be a manager!
Doug S.
