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NetSuite.com slash C-suite. Netsuite.com slash C-suite. Welcome back to the show for business owners, your first thousand clients. It's on these airwaves that we meet and

greet the leaders of our community, those who fought the odds to break through

to astounding success. It rarely comes easily or without many course

corrections, but perseverance is the common element of almost every story we tell.

Success alone doesn't get you a spot on this show.

It's the qualities of their soul, the enrichment of my listeners

that makes the difference to me.

Today's guest happens to be a very special gentleman, one who started as a sales trainee,

and after learning important lessons about relationships, accountability, and constant change, he emerged as the leader he always was.

After his time spent as a vice president and general manager for Sperry Corporation,

he was snapped up by AT&T as their first senior corporate officer not hired

from within going back a hundred years.

It was there he tripled the growth rate and was promoted to the president of global services.

Later he led a Fortune 10 company as the president of the government division of

Lucent Technologies which took him directly into the war zones of Iraq, which is a story

that I will let him tell us as the show evolves.

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