Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

Mine was legendary humorist and media figure Cactus Pryor. His father, Skinny Pryor, owned a movie theatre and entertained audiences with comedy routines during intermissions. Today, when I use nouns as verbs and place business terms out of context to make people think creatively, I’m thinking back to Cactus Pryor.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer: Former Red Cross exec Vikki Pryor addresses Servant Leadership Conference. This piece recaps Pryor’s keynote at the Pastoral Institute’s annual Servant Leadership Conference. I had the good fortune to hear Pryor at the Greenleaf conference a couple years ago and highly recommend her.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. Its CEO (John Y. The Colonel had just founded a fast food empire called Kentucky Fried Chicken. He was heralded as an entrepreneur who was also a senior citizen. The 24-year-old newscaster at the radio station was Bill Moyers. Colonel Sanders died in 1979.

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