By Ed Mendlowitz
Call Me Before You Do Anything: The Art of Accounting
I was fortunate early on in my career that I had a boss who gave me responsibility to supervise. On some level I was not really instructed how to supervise, but was told I could use the new person to help me get my work done.
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This was precipitated by an email I received from the first person ever I supervised. I had not spoken to him since working with him in 1968. He emailed me because he read one of my columns and just wanted to say hello. I remembered him and then I recalled how I got started training him – he was the first person I trained.