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Lessons learned by Georgia's Top Executives. Interviews by Sunday Business Editor Henry Unger
Web strategy pays off for Athens retailer
From her cubicle at a credit card company in Columbus, Ga., Diana Harbour saw a flat trajectory for her life ahead. It terrified her.Eight hours a day, the English lit major wrote bland paragraphs of boilerplate to be printed on credit card statements. She also plotted her dream.Eight years later ...
Vince Dooley: ‘Coaching is about surviving a series of crises’
Once in a while, you have to break your own rules. In this case, blame Vince Dooley. The legendary football coach, who led UGA to one national championship and six SEC titles, talked about a wide range of issues during a two-hour interview last week. Instead of five Q&As, there ...
Southwire CEO: ‘Put the company first and your own self-interest second’
Big and family owned. That’s the type of company Stu Thorn has worked for during most of his career, from SC Johnson (cleaning products) to Beaulieu of America (carpet) and Southwire. As CEO of the Carrollton-based manufacturer of electrical power cable and wire for the past 12 years, Thorn has ...
U.S. Attorney Sally Yates: ‘Nobody is a success on their own’
There’s more than one way to become the first in something. For Sally Quillian Yates, the first woman to be named U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, it was a combination of hard work, wise mentors and luck. Yates, 53, leads about 100 federal lawyers who prosecute a ...
Fulton police officer shot, suspect dead
A veteran Fulton County police officer is out of the hospital after being wounded early Thursday during a shootout, a police spokeswoman said. The officer, who shot and killed the suspect firing on him, was released from Grady Memorial Hospital early Thursday afternoon, Fulton Police Cpl. Kay Lester said. The ...
Michael Adams: ‘I’ve broken one of the basic corporate rules’
The average tenure of a college president is about seven years today. Michael Adams went 16 at UGA before stepping down this summer after helping to turn the state’s flagship university into one of the nation’s top public colleges. Adams, a skilled fundraiser who learned that trade in politics, helped ...
Sam Massell: ‘I didn’t think much of me and my principal didn’t either’
At 85, former Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell has accomplished many things in his life, but shedding his workaholic behavior is not one of them. As president of the Buckhead Coalition, Massell still works every day, trying to promote economic development in the upscale area while improving the quality of life. ...
‘They took a leap of faith on me’
Nobody gets where they are without help. And nobody knows that better than Beth Finnerty. For the past 24 years, Finnerty has led Skyland Trail, a mental health organization that offers a wide range of treatment services to adults, from around-the-clock residential care to daytime and vocational programs. Now CEO, ...
Cobb school officials distribute thousands of donated books
Cobb Schools’ Library Media Education department distributed more than 10,400 books this summer to students involved in the MUST Ministries Summer Lunch program, officials said. The department’s staff launched the book drive a year ago when they encouraged Cobb citizens to donate books to the effort. Hundreds of Cobb students ...
Pete Correll: ‘Bad news does not get better with age’
Pete Correll, one of the dean’s of Atlanta business for more than two decades, built his career by paying attention — first to his mother and then to influential leaders like Bill Clinton. Correll, the 72-year-old former CEO of Georgia-Pacific, helped build that company into a building and paper products ...
Website president: ‘We’re not running a volunteer fire department’
Can you go 24 hours without hearing a business associate talk about boosting sales on the Internet? How about 24 minutes?Often, it’s just talk. Many executives dream about making money on the web, but far fewer actually succeed.Enter Matt Crenshaw, a web old-timer at 36. Crenshaw was just tapped to ...
ARRIS chief: ‘I took jobs I had no business doing’
Once in a while, when the stars align just right, a smaller company gets the chance to swallow a larger rival. That’s what happened a few months ago when ARRIS Group, the Suwanee-based supplier of cable equipment including voice and data modems, bought a Google-owned business in a $2.35 billion ...
Michael Thurmond: ‘Never allow your fears to overcome your dreams’
Desegregation. Poverty and welfare reform. Exploding unemployment. Those are just a few of the controversial issues that Michael Thurmond has tried to tackle in one of his many leadership roles. Now, Thurmond, 60, may be facing his toughest challenge as interim superintendent of the DeKalb County School District. The 99,000-student ...
Joey Reiman: ‘Passion divides the winners from the whiners’
Joey Reiman took his unconventional upbringing even further than his astrologer mother could have predicted. Known throughout the advertising industry for his creativity, Reiman, 60, rose up the ranks at several large agencies before launching his own Atlanta firm. Then, while flying back from a London business trip 18 years ...
‘I focused on the laundry and not the batter’
Failure may be hard to take, but it can be a wonderful teacher. Terry Marks was on his way to living his dream of becoming a pro baseball pitcher when reality struck. He made it to the minor league with the San Francisco Giants before his self-defeating mental approach led ...
CDC Foundation chief: ‘It’s positive reinforcement that really gets the results’
There’s never enough money when it comes to fighting contagious and chronic diseases around the world. At least that’s what Charlie Stokes, chief executive of the CDC Foundation, believes. Stokes, 64, has led the Atlanta-based not-for-profit organization since its inception in 1995. It has raised a total of about $400 ...
Popeyes chief: ‘You do not have to fit in a cookie-cutter’
One good mentor can make all the difference. Just ask Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of AFC Enterprises, the Atlanta-based franchisor of the Popeyes fast-food chain. Bachelder’s business education began with years of dinner table discussions with her father, a corporate executive. Not only did that experience help propel Bachelder’s career, but ...
Three new teams speak at Pigskin Preview
The Peach State Pigskin Preview welcomed three new faces of upstart college football programs Tuesday.Mercer and Reinhardt begin playing football in the coming season, while Kennesaw State is slated to play its first game in 2015.Mercer and Reinhardt open against each other Aug. 31 in Macon.Georgia State, which is entering ...
SEC coaches are looking like cowards
If Mike Slive sauntered into a Destin, Fla., hotel ballroom last week looking like he owned the place (and the coastline), wearing his best dress toga, showing that “Marcus Aurelius, I’m-better-than-you” sparkle in his eyes, it would be understood. Slive is the commissioner of the SEC. That is as close ...
Insurance CEO: ‘You have to be open, honest and accessible’
Actuaries have the best job in America. So says CareerCast, which ranked 200 occupations based on income potential, job prospects, work environment and stress. Aside from this latest study, actuaries, who predict financial risk for insurance companies, consistently place very high in such surveys. What about the stereotype — a ...
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