Recently Mike Gill connected with a long-time friend Bob Paff. Bob is a nationally known Motivational Speaker and former host of the popular CBS Radio show, Communicating To Win and current co-host of Fox News Baltimore’s Morning Show segment the Competitive Edge, seen every Thursday morning at 9:20.
We have posted an excerpt from Bob’s blog on this encounter.
While catching up with an old friend last week, he shared a lesson with me that he learned from the master himself, legendary CEO Jack Welch. Mike Gill is chairman of Evergreen Advisors and has been known to many in Baltimore and the surrounding communities for years. When I first met Mike, he was founder, president and CEO of Americom Telecommunications, a company he and his partner later sold.
Never one to be idle, Mike has reinvented himself multiple times, finally into his current position with Evergreen. We reconnected when Mike sent me a handwritten note congratulating me for being nominated for Corridor’s 2011 Person of the Year. While we go back some 20 years or so, our paths rarely cross, with the possible exception of seeing each other across a crowded restaurant or business event. Such is Baltimore, the village trying so hard to be a city! When we met last week, Mike seemed as full of life as ever, just the executive I remembered meeting many years ago. Honored that he remembered me, I told him that neither time nor the responsibilities of life had dulled his charm. We met briefly, but before he departed, Mike shared a little something with me – something he lives by every day and that I too will now incorporate into my daily life. “The Big Six,” from Jack Welch. I think I’ve read it 100 times since Mike pulled it out his pocket and gave it to me with such pride that you would have thought it was a great stock tip! Or maybe better!