very unusual willingness to share most of the numbers of our business with all the associates. It’s the only way they can possibly do their jobs to the best of their abilities—to know what’s going on in their business. If I was a little slow to pick up on sharing the profits, we were among the first in our industry—and are still way out front of almost everybody—with the idea of empowering our associates by running the business practically as an open book.
