Control Your Own Destiny Views
One thing you can do to control your own destiny is determine the impact on your operation of potential or complete program cuts and what it would do to your bottom line. In doing this with several cash grain farmers, we soon realized that those operations need diversity to be “riskwise” in “what if” scenarios.
Mammen Glass & Mirror is this year’s Southwest/South Central Regional Finalist for America’s Small Business of the Year Award, which will be presented on May 12th in Washington D.C. as part of Americav's Small Business Summit 2009.d This third-generation, family-owned business is headed by Chris Mammen.x Hear him talk about how the company got started and has grown; as well as the need to be creative and dynamic in order to take control of your own destiny.
As CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch's turnaround of that company has been remarkable. Fortune magazine considers Jack the most successful corporate leader of our time. The title of one of his books is one of my all time favorite book titles. It sums up the self-determination concepts I've outlined here and Jack's leadership philosophy. The book is called, Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will. Exactly.