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Name: Todd P. Leff
Title: President
Company: Cottman Transmission Systems Inc.
Type of company: Fort Washington, Montgomery Countybased chain of automotive repair centers
Education: BA, political science, Villanova University; JD, Temple University School of Law
Home: Warrington
Business Philosophy
Essential business philosophy: Set goals, maintain focus and never look back.
Best way to keep a competitive edge: By setting goals for your organization, not taking 'no' for an answer and following your core mission. Whenever you try to push a company forward there is a general reluctance among people. Everyone tells you ways you can't get achieve something. You just have to say, 'I'm not going to accept that as an answer, go figure it out.' Nine out of 10 times, people will come back with a way of making it happen.
Yardstick of success: I really felt we had established some credibility when Mayor Ed Rendell presided over...