Business View Civil and Municipal | Volume 3, Issue 3

14 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 POWER QUEST ION be willing to work collaboratively with your stakeholders and your employees. Technology helps, but I don’t think it’s a complete driving force.” Ronald Stillwell, Chief Development Officer at FullSpeed Automotive, Greenwood Village, Colorado: “Because there is so much technology – email, texts, social media – you’ve got everything coming at you and you need to be highly organized in order to effectively run a department or an organization. There are so many details and everyone wants you to know what’s going on in their lives, it seems. You get copied on hundreds of emails every day… so what’s important is being highly organized yourself and training those who work for you to be highly organized so you’re not spending time on the wrong things. Some people have a ‘to-do’ list I have a ‘stop’ list – to be more productive in the things I actually need to do.” Brett Drexler, President of Ice Castle Fish Houses, Montevideo, Minnesota: “I would say that getting through to people is my biggest motivation. I do that first by self- educating – I do a lot of reading and take a look at myself in the mirror. And, of course, being a good listener is really important.”