Why Leaders Should Build Community - One Connection at a Time

Any leader who steps into the role of CEO at an established company competes with the legacy of their predecessors. Only some of us are lucky enough to have had a mentor come before them, one who was as vested in their successor's success as they were in their own. Jerry Lee, now a retired architect and executive director of our MG2 Foundation, was my CEO predecessor at MG2 and my mentor.

Lee has always understood growth as something far deeper than financial success. From the earliest days of his career, he learned that resilience and purpose come from how we show up for others. "Part of being generous is basically being helpful," he once said in a commencement speech at Washington State University.

Helpfulness—it's so basic, but so profoundly important. He learned the value of helping from his parents.

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