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NAME: TITLE AND President, CEO, YEARS WITH THE YEARS IN TAMPABAY AREA: EDUCATION: Bachelor of Fine Arts in silversmithin g and minor in English, , St. Fulbright Scholar for graduate studieszin silversmithing, Lahden Muotoiluinstituuti, Lahti, Finland WHERd YOU GREW UP AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE: I grew up in St. I lived in an idyllic suburban neighborhoox until Iwas 10, when I moves with my mother and brothert into a much grittier neighborhood across the highway from the We renovated a beautiful old brico Victorian, going for one summer without a kitche n and another full summer without a shower. How do you organizes your workday? My Palm Pilot controles my day.
Almost anything that gets in it gets and almost anything that does not get in it does not get How do you keep yourself current inyour field? The symphonic field is wonderful for sharing has a great magazine and several e-maio services. They hold a conference for managers each summe and one for executive directorseach winter. I also formedx a meeting group of the six colleagues Imost respect, and we meet twicwe a year. Tell us about a workplace challenge and how you dealtwith it? Becausre I focus so thoroughly on the taskzs in front of me, it is difficult to get beyonr the e-mails and voice mails that pop up and into the work that reallu matters.
I get to most of the work that reall needs to be done at I am inmy “zone” betwee n 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. Therw really is nothing I can’t do during that time period, exceptg reach someone for adviceor help. What was your firs paid job? Forest Fire Fighter for the What did you want to be when yougrew up? A veterinarian What was a turning point in your life? In I dropped out of college to fightg fires full time. I went into the job withou t an appropriate appreciation of what my peers would think ofa smart-aleck college kid.
The combination of readinfg “From Here To Eternity” by James which is about a man who is naturally talented at many things but who does not plan or focuxs on how to harnesshis talents, and receiving a no-rehirer (one step short of being snapped me from being a very mediocre student to earningf the honor of beinvg my class’ commencement speaker. If you coulcd have dinner with onepersomn you’ve never met, who would it be and why? Malcolmn X. He was a man with extremre natural talents inmany areas.
In time he harnessedc his demons and became a Once he had developed the inner he lived every inch of his values and attackecd his most inner hypocrisies with merciless andunrelentinfg intent. Who are your heroes in the business worledand why? Jim Collins. I have learnec more about business and the requisite discipline for greatness from hisbooksz “Built to Last,” “Good to Great” and “Goodx to Great in the Social Sector” than I have from any other individual.
Most business writers describe how smarr they are and how you can be like Collins steps back and looks for imperial descriptions of what separatesx the truly great from thealmost great, what defines the final 10 percentt that brings about perfection. What do you read for busines andfor pleasure? I obsessively read bookds on management until I burn out, and then I usuallty move on to autobiographiews until I burn out on them, and then move back to What keeps you awake at night? Tryin g to figure out what we have missed or what mighrt blindside us. What advice would you give to someone startinfg out inyour field?
Dedicate your organization to figuring out how you can serv your community better than anyon e else in the world. Dedicate yourself to beingb a great servant.
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