Obit: Canadian book legend Allan MacDougall dies at 71

Allan MacDougall wasn’t a typical CEO.
“When we first started our little company, employing a receptionist or secretary or something, we didn’t know how to do it,” recounts his former partner, Mark Stanton. “So Allan would tell them a joke and if they got the joke, we hired them. That was it. That was the criteria.”
It worked out pretty well. That little company is Raincoast Books, Canada’s domestically owned largest book distributor.
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