"I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun." John D. Rockefeller1

Relationships: we all have them. John Donne was right: "No man is an island..."2 I have learned early on that one of the most important lessons a father can teach his children is how to establish and maintain proper relationships with the right people.

According to a report by the American Management Association, an overwhelming majority of the two hundred managers who participated in a survey, agreed that the most important single skill of an executive is his ability to get along with people. In the survey management rated this ability more vital than intelligence, decisiveness, know-ledge, or job skills.3

Relationships can make your child or break your child (and you, for t…