Blog #5: Emotional Intelligence
Now more than ever we need effective leaders. Leaders who have a solid understanding of their emotions and actions and how they affect the people around...
Blog #4: Community-Mindedness
We have just completed a great brainstorming session that focused on a very important leadership quality that all the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame Laureate Legacies share. In fact, its one of the key criteria that led them to receiving this most prestigious honor and coveted award.
This quality is community-minded...
Blog #3: Guest Blogger - Sally Glick
In 2017 I was honored by Junior Achievement as one of the Laureates being inducted into the New Jersey Business Hall of Fame. I was blown away by the invitation. Although I have enjoyed a long and fulfilling career in various marketing and business development roles in the accounting profession, it didnt seem to be anything worthy of such...
Blog #2: True grit is developed through practice, experience and failure.
When discussing the common traits among the Laureates from over the years, grit was the one that landed on top of the list. We found it interesting that this characteristic was so highly rated because what we have learned is that grit is not necessarily something you are born with. True grit is developed through practice, experience and...
Blog #1: Inspire
When I think of the word inspire, I fondly think of Junior Achievement (JA). Not just because I work for JA, but because everything associated with the Mission has a valuable connection to the word...
Junior Achievement of New Jersey Introduces Financial Literacy Curriculum
Junior Achievement of New Jersey (JANJ) introduced its revised financial literacy curriculum before an audience of school administrators and board members on Oct....
Junior Achievement Honors: Davis, Flynn and Guadagno
Junior Achievement of New Jersey inducted three new laureates into its New Jersey Business Hall of Fame: Michellene Davis, Esq., executive vice president, chief corporate affairs officer at RWJBarnabas Health; Bernie Flynn, retired president and CEO of NJM Insurance Group; and former Lt. Governor Kim Guadagno (now a partner at the law firm Connell...
