My career doesn't have an arc so much as a zig-zag from pastor in a large church to the professional poker industry to a corporation with $4 billion in annual revenue. However, there has been a common throughline: the significance of telling good stories. I love stories in every form, whether I'm watching a character-driven TV drama or sitting on my back porch with a good book. But the stories I love the most are the ones told across the dinner table. Next to the water cooler. At the coffee shop. Currently, I'm helping tell the story of a 130 year-old global manufacturing company whose headquarters are tucked away in a corner of Missouri. And I've quickly learned it's not a story about flashy products or sales techniques or process improvements. It's a story about people. People making a difference at a big company with small town ideals. Stories about teamwork. About honesty and integrity in business. Those are the stories that describe what we're building at Leggett & Platt.