This holiday I have been busy preparing topics for CD's, DVD's, MP3 download from the CEO Speaks. Always determined to have something accomplished in too short a time frame I will forever be diluted by my own ambition. It will get done it may just take a tad bit longer then two weeks; in fact, the range of topics are those all people of higher education are interested in regarding our current business and ecomonic situations. Ethics, entrepreneurial spirit, vision, passion, leadership, best business practices, etc., to name a few. One of the interview in the fall of 2009 was with Bill Mullins, CEO of Mullins Rubber Products in Dayton, Ohio. I especially enjoyed a story Bill shared regarding his youth:
What is your biggest challenge?
I worry about our becoming a socialist state and I worry about government interference. This is not the same coun¬try it was when I was a kid. Here’s an example I like to tell. When I was a Boy Scout, the Parent-Teacher Association at the local school asked my troop to put on a demonstra¬tion. We were supposed to do a program about Indians. We decided we needed some drums, so I got on the bus and went downtown to the Natural History Museum. When I got there I asked to see the curator. I introduced myself and told him I was representing Boy Scout Troop 101 and the PTA had asked us to do a program for them about Indians. I asked him if the museum had any authentic Indian drums we might use in our program. The curator took me into one of the rooms and gave me three Indian drums and told me to just bring them back after the program. So, we put on our program and afterwards I got back on the bus and took the three drums back to the museum. That is something you could not do today.
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