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Eight Leadership Lessons From Frank PerdueEight Leadership Lessons From Frank Perdue

Charisma is one of the most important ingredients of leadership. Luckily, it can be learned.

Mitzi Perdue

December 3, 2018

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Having people want to follow your lead is the essence of leadership, and this is true whether it’s for yourself or for your clients.

To develop the charisma that makes people want to follow you, remember, the best leaders give people a better vision of themselves. Having folks see things your way and having them be willing to go the extra mile for you is one of the most valuable skills that you or your clients can learn.

My husband, Frank Perdue, was a master of the skills that influenced people to follow his lead. It was these charisma skills that helped him grow a small chicken farm on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a company that today sells its products in more than 50 countries.

The good news is, these skills can be learned. 

Mitzi Perdue is a business owner, professional public speaker and author of the book, How to Make Your Family Business Last. Contact her at [email protected].

About the Author

Mitzi Perdue

Mitzi is a businesswoman, author and a master story teller. She holds degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University, is a past president of the 35,000 member American Agri-Women and was one of the U.S. Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Women in Nairobi. She currently writes for the Academy of Women’s Health, and GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.

Most recently, she’s authored Tough Man, Tender Chicken: Business and Life Lessons from Frank Perdue. The book made #5 on Amazon’s Business Biographies, out of a field of 20,000. She’s also the author of, I Didn’t Bargain for This, her story of growing up as a hotel heiress.

A woman of many talents, she also programmed a computer app, B Healthy U, designed to help people track the interactions of lifestyle factors that influence their energy, sleep, hunger, mood, and ability to handle stress. In addition to being a programmer and software developer, Mitzi is also an artist and designer of EveningEggs™ handbags.

In addition, Mitzi the author of more than 1600 newspaper and magazine articles on family businesses, food, agriculture, the environment, philanthropy, biotechnology, genetic engineering, and women’s health.

She was a syndicated columnist for 22 years, and her weekly environmental columns were distributed first by California’s Capitol News and later, by Scripps Howard News Service, to roughly 420 newspapers. For two years she was a Commissioner on the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science.

Mitzi also produced and hosted more than 400 half hour interview shows, Mitzi’s Country Magazine on KXTV, the CBS affiliate in Sacramento, California. In addition, she hosted and produced more than 300 editions of Mitzi’s Country Comments, which was syndicated to 76 stations. Her radio series, Tips from the Farmer to You, was broadcast weekly for two years on the Coast to Coast Radio Network.