This week, Jimmy Kalb tells us how he built his electrical component business and, perhaps even more impressively, how he put a plan in place that has allowed him to walk away from his CEO role at the relatively young age of 63. One key: Jimmy has long been a process guy. For years, he’s been creating processes and handing them over to someone else to manage -- until he left himself with not all that much to do. Another factor: He only hires people right out of school, which is why his successor is in his early 30s and has never worked anywhere else.
