Poole Bloggers – Secrets of Success
Several Poole College faculty and staff publish blogs related to their research or other roles in the college. Following is an excerpt from a blog by Chris Hitch, Program Director, Executive Programs in Poole College and Executive Director, Shelton Leadership Center.
Blog Post: an exceprt from remarks by former N.C. Governor Jim Hunt, published in the book, "Secrets of Success" by Gen. H. Hugh Shelton.
"During my life, I came to realize that one of the best ways to exercise leadership is to do it with partners. This leadership by partnership requires a lot of people working together to achieve success. Now, good leaders have to have good ideas, a vision. They have to understand the importance of ideas and that their own idea may need a lot more, a lot of vetting.
"Then I had an experience that really shaped me. I think that all good leaders can cite something that happened in their life that really touched them, that grabbed their attention. I used to run on my farm in Wilson County and on my route – across the interstate highway – was an old ramshackle house. There were beer bottles covering the front yard, old worn-out cars up on blocks, and I noticed that this little child would come out the front door with a millk bottle in his hand trying to get some milk from the bottle. He’d be sucking this empty bottle, always in a diaper and nothing else, even during the coldest winter days. It was clear to me that there was nobody in that house taking care of that child. So I said to myself “What chance is that child going to have? This isn’t right!”
