To get this fine Friday morning off to a good start, Steve Mona, GCSAA's CEO, announced at the General Session that the Golf Industry Show's partner organizations have agreed to extend the show for five years through 2014. Along with leaders of NGCOA, CMAA, ASGCA, GCBAA and the National Golf Foundation, Mona signed the official extension agreement.
Mona also boasted some record stats -- a best 300,000 plus square feet of exhibit space sold and more than 8,000 seminar seats sold. "(That) speaks well of our members and to the health of the Golf Industry Show," Mona said.
Doug Keeley, founder and former CEO of Integrated Communications and Entertainment, delivered the keynote address on the mark of a leader. Leaders fall into three categories, he said: those with hierarchal power, those in control and those who go first. All three can be dependent on one another, he said, illustrating his point with a video in 1954 of three runners working together to accomplish what was at the time thought impossible -- a 4-minute mile. Only one runner made it over the finish line in under four minutes, but each runner played an integral part in making it possible.
He also cited a golf reference to speak to leadership qualities. Golfers dread the 17th hole at TPC Sawgrass, a green surrounded by water, because they focus on the distraction and what could go wrong. Leaders and winners in golf, a mental game, as well as in life, focus instead on where they're going, he said.
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