Watch and learn. If you’ve ever had to do something thorny or tricky, something you’ve never done before, that’s how you get good at it. You watch a video online or see someone do it in person before trying it and putting your own spin on it.

See one, do one, show one, they say.

As in the new book “Lead Boldly” by Robert F. Smith, it’s always best to learn by example.

Though he was there at the March on Washington in August 1963, Smith doesn’t remember it. He was an infant in his mother’s arms then but grew up on stories of that day and other accounts of Dr. Martin Luther King’s efforts. He cut his teeth on tales of Jim Crow, the Green Book and the lack of generational wealth. Understanding this history is why, in his business, he reaches for the seven principles that Dr. King taught.

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