Business Coaching

Much to the chagrin of many of my readers, particularly those who are University of Georgia football fans, I am an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame and an avid fan of its football program. Unfortunately, although it came close this year, Notre Dame (ND) has not won a football national championship since 1988, due in no small part to its diminutive placekicker, Reggie Ho. While Reggie did not have the strongest leg of ND’s placekickers, he was the most accurate. ND’s head football coach at the time, Lou

If you have been a long-time reader of my columns here in the Augusta Business Daily and previously in other venues, you know that one of the attributes I most value in leaders is accountability. That is why I have found a recent episode in our government most disturbing.  As you have probably heard by now, national security leaders of our country discussed potentially classified information on “Signal,” an encrypted messaging app, that while much more secure than a cell phone, is not nearly as secure as the government systems

During the past couple of months, I have been able to either observe or be involved in several hiring processes, both from the perspective of the employer and that of the potential employee. From the employer side, I have been participating in multiple faculty position searches for the James M. Hull College of Business at Augusta University (AU). Thanks to the vision of the new AU President, Dr. Russell Keen, who understands the important role of a strong business school in a prestigious university, the Hull College has been provided

One of my great privileges for the past few years has been to serve on the Board of the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Foundation. The MCG Foundation (MCGF) was established in 1954 as MCG’s first philanthropic arm. Since then, the MCGF has grown its endowment to almost $400M. The Foundation manages donor funding, providing almost 400 student scholarships and 79 annual endowed chairs for the Augusta University Health Sciences Campus. In addition, the MCGF is extremely involved in the community through programs like Paceline, which brings start-up research dollars