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When my wife, Bonnie, and I graduated from Utah State University, our commencement speaker was Gerald Ford, then vice president of the United States and the proud father of a member of our graduating class. He commented, “It was Horace Greeley who said, ‘Go west, young man,’ but it was Brigham Young who knew where to stop.”
Elder J. Willard Marriott Jr., president and chair of Marriott International, and Richard E. Marriott, chair of Host Hotels and Resorts, joined other church leaders, campus officials, faculty, and members of the National Advisory Council 25 April 2007 to break ground for a significant addition to the N. Eldon Tanner Building.
THIS IS THE FINAL INSTALLMENT OF A THREE-PART SERIES FOCUSING ON ECONOMIC SELF-RELIANCE.
Visiting with top executives, touring bustling factories, and meeting with micro-credit applicants is not an everyday occurrence for Marriott School undergraduate students—unless you happen to be on a business study abroad.
Leadership has always been about honesty and integrity. No one follows a leader they can’t trust. Trust comes from being open, honest, straightforward, and treating people with dignity and respect. At no time has the organizational leader been more subjected to feelings of distrust than today.
For some people, a vacation is an escape from everything.
a new vacation concept caters to the wealthiest travelers, but are destination clubs economically sound?
In sports, there’s no better way to learn proper technique than from an accomplished athlete. Likewise, there’s no better way to train for resumé writing and job interviewing than with those who do the hiring.
You pull up to seven Gs in a bobsled seven times earth's gravitational pull. It's tough sledding. Fraser Bullock knows that from his experience on the bobsled track at Utah's Olympic Park. He had just signed on as CFO and COO of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee and wanted to understand what it was like to be an Olympic athlete. "I looked in the sled and there were chains, apparently to keep people from climbing out halfway down," he laughs. Bullock quickly discovered why someone might want to climb out. "It was like a monster roller coaster ride times ten," he continues. "And when you get to the bottom, you realize that the difference between gold and silver is one one-hundredth of a second. The expertise of these athletes is mind boggling."
You are a very select group whose contributions in the years ahead will be monumental. I know many of those who will be your teachers and your mentors. You are not likely to understand tonight what a rare group they are.
It's an honor for me to be here today. Every time I get in an awesome situation like this I think of a story that took place several years ago when my family and I lived on the west coast. Our oldest boys, who were seven and eight at the time, decided to take a friend to church with them one Sunday. This young boy had never been to our Church before.