2012 Hall of Fame: David Harding - Small Start, Big Aspirations

Not One to Micro-Manage

Nigel Worme, CEO and managing director of COT Holdings, has known Harding for more than 10 years through the NAPL and a peer group. To know David Harding, he says, is to know the HardingPoorman Group.

"Dave is a strategist extraordinaire," Worme relates. "When asked what his role is or what he does on a daily basis, his response is simply, 'nothing at all.' Never have I seen the theory of hiring the right people, training them well, expect the world of them, and then get out of their way and let them do their job put into practice better than as I have seen at HardingPoorman.