Keeping in touch with mates is important and when I heard from my old boss that he was about to retire after 40 years in business, I couldn't resist coming back to join the celebration with two other mates. We had all worked for the same boss in our early post university careers. Kevin Burrows was and is a legend in Tasmania and in Honeywell worldwide. He started in a two man operation in Hobart and was soon on his own after the guy who hired him left. Kevin did not falter in steadily building a substantial business in Tasmania. At his farewell we heard that he had the highest per capita sales in any Honeywell location worldwide, totalling 16.5m aud in Tasmania last year. That was over 35 dollars per person. In Honeywells headquarter location in Georgia they can only muster 6 dollars per person.
Kevin believes that people buy from mates and it was always important to have business friends. He does not like the word customer and prefers to call them friends. He said he also always delivered on his promises and was a man of his word. He was a great boss and gave us all great work ethics and values for us to take into our own careers.
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