There is little that I enjoy more than spending quality time with a group of great friends.\u00a0 Today I went to the BYU Founders Board Meeting\u00a0(Brigham Young\u00a0University board I serve on).\u00a0 It was a great meeting and I truly joy serving with such amazing board members.\u00a0 All are highly successful people who place integrity and service at the top of their priority list and I have tremendous respect for each of them.\u00a0 Following the board meeting I was a \u201cshark\u201d on their version of a Shark Tank business competition.\u00a0 The students presented their companies and the founders were the sharks.\u00a0 I was really impressed and proud of the students.\u00a0 They handled the grilling we gave them exceptionally well today and I am certain that every one of them is going to go on to do incredible things in their careers.<\/p>\n
Finally we ended the program with a fabulous dinner where everyone\u2019s spouses joined in.\u00a0 The best part of the dinner was the keynote speech given by Barry Smith, CEO of Magellan Health Services, and a fellow Board Member.\u00a0 Barry gave an amazing talk in which he shared some suggestions on how to be a great leader.\u00a0 I agreed wholeheartedly with his comments and it is obvious that he is a fantastic leader.\u00a0 He understands the importance of valuing his employees, giving them honest and open communication as well as feedback, and the importance of appreciating your employees for the good work they do.\u00a0 He spoke of everything from the importance of having employees live by the values of the organization, to the importance of spending plenty of time away from work to be with your loved ones.\u00a0 I wish I could have recorded it to share with all of you because everyone could learn a tremendous amount from the words he shared tonight.<\/p>\n
As much as I loved the board meeting today, the part I loved the most was what happened after the dinner.\u00a0 A large group of couples from the Founders Board got together to have a Rook tournament.\u00a0 Rook is a card game for those who are not familiar with it.\u00a0 All of the couples play in groups of four (two couples) at each table and as each round is completed you rotate up a table or down a table based on which of the two couples won that game, so you are constantly getting to interact and compete with each of the different couples in the group. \u00a0To get a full picture of our group tonight you have to know that within each married couple, at least of them is a successful entrepreneur or CEO\u00a0 of very successful companies, which means that at least one half of each couples is a highly competitive, type A personality.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Now try to imagine that in this group of 24 people, 12 are ridiculously competitive and the other 12 are highly competitive\u2026so yeah, everyone is competitive (in a healthy way).\u00a0 Oh, and to add to the fun they are all husband and wife teams, so you have the fun married dynamic going on as well\u2026it was the perfect recipe for the most fun evening ever!\u00a0 The smack talking had begun before the dinner was even over, and it was on like Donkey Kong :).\u00a0\u00a0 Playing cards with this group of good friends and great people, laughing hysterically at everyone smack talking and teasing one another, oh, and we can\u2019t forget the booty shake dance that had to be done every time we won a round\u2026all of those made for an absolutely perfect evening.\u00a0 It was so much fun and so many good memories were made that we will remember for years to come.<\/p>\n
Tonight was a good reminder that there is little in life that is better than spending time having good clean laughter and fun with a group of quality people that you love and respect.\u00a0 All of us need to do that more often. \u00a0So this weekend get the people you love together and whip out the Rook cards and have yourselves a tournament\u2026oh, and don\u2019t forget to do the booty shake when you win the round \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Have a great weekend everyone!!!<\/p>\n
~Amy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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