Carrying Nine Hundred People

Samuel Ekwueme has run the same manufacturer for fourteen years. Nine hundred people, three plants, a customer base that does not care about his convictions.

We talk about duration rather than crisis: what it is to carry the same responsibility for over a decade, how his practice of faith changed when the company doubled, and the Monday routine he has kept since a fatality in 2016.

Much of his wisdom is about maintenance — sleep, counsel, refusing certain kinds of travel — rather than decisions.