Note to Self 2

An excerpt from Business Insider -

How Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison went from making $4.35 an hour as a Target security guard to running the second biggest home-improvement retailer in the US
By Áine Cain

Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison spent years at major retailers
including Home Depot and JCPenney. Pool / Getty Images

Lowe's CEO Marvin Ellison can draw on his many years of retail experience.

Not only has the longtime executive held plenty of leadership positions over the course of his career, but he also knows what it's like to work as a store employee at places like Target.

Ellison became CEO of Lowe's in 2018. There, he makes a base annual salary of $1.45 million with $6 million worth of restricted stock options, according to the Charlotte Business Journal. But as a college student, he started out with a part-time security gig at Target, which only paid $4.35 an hour.

https://www.businessinsider.com/lowes-ceo-marvin-ellison-life-career-2019-2

Note to Self

An excerpt from Business Insider -


The CEO of the world's largest cruise company reveals the advice he would give to his 25-year-old self
By Mark Matousek

Carnival Corporation CEO Arnold Donald. Lynne Sladky/Associated Press

Since Arnold Donald became the CEO of Carnival Corporation in 2013, the company has more than doubled its annual earnings and increased its share price by 70%, as of the end of 2018.

Donald said in an interview with Business Insider that he made listening to his employees and customers a priority at the beginning of his tenure. If he could give his 25-year-old self advice, it would be to listen.

"I would just tell my 25-year-old self to do, hopefully, what I try to do a lot of my life, which is listen, listen, listen. You can learn from anybody and everybody," he said.

"If you listen to the world, it will reveal itself to you. In business, if you listen to your customers or guests, they will tell you what it takes to exceed their expectations. If you listen to your employees, they will tell you how to deliver whatever that guest or customer wants in a manner where it's sustainable for the company."

https://www.businessinsider.com/carnival-cruise-ceo-shares-advice-youth-2019-2

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The Only One

An excerpt from the NYTimes -

For a Black Mathematician, What It’s Like to Be the ‘Only One’
Fewer than 1 percent of doctorates in math are awarded to African-Americans. Edray Goins, who earned one of them, found the upper reaches of the math world a challenging place.
By Amy Harmon

BALTIMORE — It was not an overt incident of racism that prompted Edray Goins, an African-American mathematician in the prime of his career, to abandon his tenured position on the faculty of a major research university last year.

The hostilities he perceived were subtle, the signs of disrespect unspoken.

There was the time he was brushed aside by the leaders of his field when he approached with a math question at a conference. There were the reports from students in his department at Purdue University that a white professor had warned them not to work with him.

One of only perhaps a dozen black mathematicians among nearly 2,000 tenured faculty members in the nation’s top 50 math departments, Dr. Goins frequently asked himself whether he was right to factor race into the challenges he faced.

That question from a senior colleague on his area of expertise, directed to someone else? His department’s disinclination to nominate him to the committee that controls hiring? The presumption, by a famous visiting scholar, that he was another professor’s student?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/edray-goins-black-mathematicians.html

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Changes have been made to Blogger, the platform used for this blog.  These changes have resulted in limiting the viewership via the "Share" function.

In an effort to continue to share the posts to the widest audience, I've moved my blog to Wordpress.

My new address is FollowingFaye.blog.

I hope to see you there.

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