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Category: Leadership
A town’s motto says a lot about a place. Atlanta is a “City Too Busy to Hate,” while Athens is “Life Unleashed.” And now, with the help of a dedicated student team from the Terry College’s Institute for Leadership Advancement (ILA), Georgia’s Colquitt County is “Where Life Grows.”
Effective leadership impacts every part of an organization, but there is still plenty to learn about what makes leaders effective, or even what effectiveness looks like.
William Ross’ sense of fairness was apparent in his first business venture, a pine straw spreading business he started at age 16. It was successful enough that he was able to pay his workers $20 an hour, well over the minimum wage.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Adam C. Johnson was in his sophomore classroom at T.F. Riggs High School in Pierre, S.D., watching the television as the terrorist attacks played out halfway across the country. That moment sealed Johnson’s commitment to serve.
After dark on the day he turned 22 years of age, Harold Storey (BBA ’42) bedded down with a few buddies in the basement of a French house near the Moselle River.
During Jason Hedrick’s first year in Terry’s Full-Time MBA program, the former U.S. Army Aviation Officer discovered two surprises. The first was finding so many veterans in his classes, and second, that there was no social organization in place to help them get to know one other.
Education has always been at the core of Andrea Smith’s life.
One hallmark of Raphael Bostic’s leadership style is that everybody needs to be at the table if an organization is going to be at its best.
Whether on the court, in a classroom or at a workplace, you have the choice to be legendary.