Harold “Bud” Boughton knows what it takes to be a leader.  He’s a former business executive, a college football coach and a father.

Through his life experiences, he says he’s come up with four key principles to leadership that he believes we can all live by.

But rather than writing your typical how-to business book, he wrote a novel about a man who learns he has 24 hours to live and sits down to say goodbye to his children.

The result is “Dad’s Last Letter: Leadership Principles for the Next Generation.”

Find out why Bud thinks more of us aren’t leaders in our everyday lives.

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