Leaders at almost every company say that “people are our most important asset.”  I’m often skeptical of that based on their practices.  At JR Butler, long-term leadership development is HOW the company achieves its goals.  Team members selected by their peers are admitted to the Elite leadership class where they learn leadership and conversation skills, read business books, listen to NPR and Fox News, learn personal finance, purchase a suit, and before they graduate from the program, take a class from Marc Butler’s mother called “Macho Manners for Modern Men.”  Is this kind of thing possible for high-tech FAST moving companies?  Marc Butler thinks so, and explains why and how.