The best boss I ever had was Tom Rachfal. He was the Vice President of Sales when I was a Regional Manager for Tapco. I heard that he left the company not too long after we sold it. He always treated me fairly, with respect, and never gave me any grief over my family connection to the company; although I worked really hard to make that a non-issue.

One of the things I miss most about working for him is when he’d get a piece of information about a customer of mine and if I wasn’t in my office when he walked down to give it to me, he’d leave it on my desk with a note saying “Mark – WTF?”

How can you not like a guy that is so direct?