The Great Northwest Gathering

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The Great Northwest Gathering

• National Angus Conference and Tour
• September 26, 2006
• Rod Nulik, Purina Mills, LLC

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Leadership

• The ability to lead. The position or function
  of a leader
• Leader
• A person or thing that leads
• Lead

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Leadership

• To go before to show the way.

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Leadership

• Ethical
• Edifying
• Enthusiastic
• Encouraging
• Empowering

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Ethical

• Leadership needs to start with a moral
  foundation. Experts say that most people forgive
  mistakes made by leaders that have both
  conviction and a good heart. Del Jones,
  USA Today

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Ethical

• Do what you feel in your heart is right because
  you will be criticized. Damned if you do, damned
  if you dont. Eleanor Roosevelt

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Ethical

• Doing what is right isnt always popular and
  doing what is popular isnt always
  right. John Lacy, Past-President, NCBA

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I dare you to aspire nobly, adventure daringly
and serve humbly."
William H. Danforth, Founder Ralston Purina
Company
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Ethical

• Character is still a better business investment
  than brilliance without moral foundation.
  Character is and always will be the Purina
  cornerstone. W.H. Danforth

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Edifying

• Educate/Inform/Communicate

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Edifying

• Communicate/Inform/Educate
• The absence of knowing whats going on and why
  creates a toxic environment where distrust,
  suspicion and fear overpower confidence,
  camaraderie, and courage.
• Wess Roberts, Author of Leadership Secrets of
  Attila the Hun

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Leadership
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Edifying

• Communicate
• Say it well, say if often, say it simply, and
  say it passionately.
• Michael Useem, Director of Center for Leadership
  and Change, Wharton School of Business

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Enthusiastic

• Nothing great was ever achieved without
  enthusiasm
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Act enthusiastic and you will become
  enthusiastic.
• Dale Carnegie
• Its a positive attitude that is a matter of
  choice

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Attitude

• Attitude is more important than the past, than
  education, than money, than circumstances, than
  what other people think or say or do. It is more
  important than appearance, giftedness or skill.
  It will make or break a company, a church, or a
  home. The remarkable thing is, we have a choice
  every day regarding the attitude we will embrace
  for that day. We cannot change our past. We
  cannot change the fact that people will act in a
  certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.
  The only thing we can do is play on the one
  string we have and that is our attitude.
• - Charles Swindoll

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Encouraging

• We live with encouragement and we die without it
  slowly, sadly, silently.
• Celeste Holme, Actress

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Encouraging

• The most powerful tool is the ability to make
  people feel like what they do matters.
• Paul Argenti, Director of Darthmouths Tuck
  Leadership Forum

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Encouraging

• The Greek word for "encourage" may be translated
  as comfort, console, entreat, beg, implore,
  counsel, urge, challenge.
• We see from this that encouragement has a
  two-fold emphasis to comfort or reassure, to
  challenge or admonish.
• Rev. Adrian Dieleman

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Encouraging
William H. Danforth
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Empowerment

• Delegate

• Its true hard work never killed anybody, but I
  figure, why take the chance?
• Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States

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Empowerment
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Empowerment

• There they go. I must catch them, for I am
  their leader.

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Leadership

• Purina Mills Responsibility as a Leader in the
  Industry
• To address the beef industrys needs to improve
  beefs competitive advantage
• To utilize our strengths in research and
  distribution to optimize YOUR resources of land,
  labor, capital, and management
• Build leaders through innovation

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Purina Mills Leadership

• Research Platform
• Concentrating on research initiatives that will
  result in improved cattle and beef producer
  profitability.

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Leadership

• Ethical
• Edifying
• Enthusiastic
• Encouraging
• Empowering

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Leadership

• The Man In The Glass Dale Wimbrow 1895-1954

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• The Man in the Glass
• When you get what you want in your struggle for
  self And the world makes you king for a day, Just
  go to a mirror and look at yourself, And see what
  that man has to say.
• For it isnt your father or mother or wife, Whose
  judgment upon you must pass The fellow whose
  verdict counts most in your life Is the one
  looking back from the glass.
• Hes the fellow to please, never mind all the
  rest. For hes with you clear up to the end, And
  youve passed the most dangerous, difficult test
  If the man in the glass is your friend.
• You may fool the whole world down the pathway of
  years. And get pats on the back as you pass, But
  your final reward will be heartaches and tears If
  you cheated the man in the glass. Dale
  Wimbrow 1895-1954

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