Legacy Leadership presented at Chamber luncheon

Community leaders learn about leaving their mark
Read full story by TRENT JACOBS, The Daily Sentinel

"People don't remember us for what we do for ourselves, they remember us for what we do for them."

That's what Dr. Randy Garner, a professor at the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University, said he hoped those gathered at the Nacogdoches County Chamber of Commerce Fourth Friday Luncheon would take away from his motivational speech on something known as "legacy leadership."

"If you think about the people who have had the most impact in your life, it's not about what they did for themselves, it's about how they helped you — about the influence they had on you," Garner said. "That's what we need to be thinking about as we are looking to leave that legacy for others."

Attending the Friday luncheon were many of Nacogdoches' business, civic and public leaders. They came to not just eat fried catfish and sip on iced tea, but rather to listen to Garner, who has authored books on leadership and practiced it as a chief of police in Pearland during the 1980s, speak about what it truly means to be a leader and why good leaders become so. The simple answer, according to Garner, is that great leaders strengthen others around them by employing the model of servant-leadership.

Photos - click images to view larger. Top from left, Chamber President/CEO Bruce Partain, Director Bill Teague, Chair Donna Finley and Dr. Garner.

Bottom, Chamber Chair Finley stands with officers of the Nacogdoches City Police Dept.
Photos by Kelly Daniel

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