Life Passion And Business

The week we step back a year and rediscover my conversation with Jon Rennie, he was a submariner on a nuclear submarine during the Cold War.  Our podcast is about the transition between services and civic street. However, it is also about the application of a leadership style.  Today, Jon Rennie runs a successful business that manufactures critical components for electrical utilities. He’s also a podcast host and the author of three books on leadership. Jon was born to a family in Manchester, New Hampshire, just north of Boston. It is a blue-collar town, and people do not leave. He was born to young parents with equally young grandparents. His Grandfathers had both served in WW2 and talked fondly of military service.     While John was born to a loving family, life was abundant, but funds were limited, and his father extolled the virtue of getting to college. That opportunity would only be possible with a scholarship. He was fascinated by engineering and submarines and expressed the idea of becoming a ser