He describes it as a clubby place where the editors had many clever names for the martini and where the understanding between company and employee was roughly, "Stay here, stay loyal, work hard and you'll always have a job".
Oddly, equity stakes have not created what you might think they would create: stable, loyal work forces.
"For a person who's so hard to work for, Keith has a really loyal work force," observed Kathryn Tatum, who has worked for him since 1997.
The results will surely be a boon to dads, moms, children and, yes, employers, who will see a more satisfied and loyal work force.
Union Yarn, like so many mills scattered across the South, has left its loyal work force not only unemployed, but out of breath as well.
Chief executives could devote their formidable talents to raising the skills and living standards of loyal work forces and avoiding the huge self-imposed costs of labor turnover, rather than gaming quarterly reports.
"I'll be one of the loyal minions working for him," he said with a straight face.
Habsburg, always a loyal Catholic working for better understanding among Christians, Jews and Muslims, went to the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, to read politics and social studies.
