Nicole Shelley Greenidge, U.S. Ambassador of Commerce for St. Lucia under the International Business Counsel of Florida, Founder/Owner, Nicole Shelley Models & Event Promotions & the Kids Country Club
Pushing forward, past challenge & change
Nicole, it appears that you do so many different things. You have a modeling company, a consulting firm, and a children’s prep school, right? Yes. What is a typical day like in the life of “Nicole Shelley?” What does your daily routine entail?
Well, I am always busy scheduling appointments- that are strategically planned. I try to compartmentalize my days in such a way that my mental focus is on one thing at a time. One thing for us could be events; events relating to the topic of the day. It may be events relating to the Kids Country Club, as well as events related to Nicole Shelley Models. A lot of our clients “marry” in the different services. For example, a law firm that wants us to do a workshop for them…Read Full Interview
Executive Highlights: Entrepreneurship
Interviewee: Mr. H. Wayne Huizenga
Pushing forward past Challenge & Change
To gather a sense of the “day in the life of H. Wayne Huizenga,” please Mr. Huizenga, tell me a little bit about what your typical daily agenda consists of.
Well, I don’t think my day is any different than yours. Alright, we all get up in the morning and get ready to go to work and face the day’s challenges. Our challenges here are like those of hundreds and thousands of people, doing the same things we’re doing; making different business decisions during the day. I don’t think my day is any different than yours.
In our business, we are trying to operate some of the businesses that we have. Most of them are out of this area so we do it by phone and the rest of the day is spent looking at business opportunities, acquiring, or selling assets or reviewing companies that we want to acquire or that we want to sell.
We are a small group of people here, probably, I’m guessing now 9-10 people in the office; maybe 12 with the support staff. So, we do a lot of things quickly. We have our own in-house lawyers, our own in-house accountants and we do whatever we need to do pretty much. We also use outside firms, you know outside accounting firms and outside legal counsel, but we’ve been doing this for so long that a lot of the things we do we can pretty much handle in-house. So that is basically what we do. Everyday is a new day. Most of the day is not spending time on managing our existing business, it consists more of looking at new opportunities.
Okay, so the in-house staff would basically help to expedite those business transactions for you?
Yes, they would be actively involved in making that decision.
Mr. Huizenga, as the creator of 3 Fortune 500 companies, a 5 time recipient of Financial World Magazine’s “CEO of the Year” and numerous other achievements, what have you found to be most challenging in general business these days?…Read Full Interview