Alvin Gunneson:  

Life Hi Y'all, Hope the years have been good to you and yours. I've had wonderful years since high school. It's interesting to look back on my early life. At GHS Ms Busse the Vice Principal said to my parents during a conference that, "he is not academically inclined and will not go vary far in life, so he should pursue industrial arts as opposed to college prep courses". Consequently, I took mostly shop classes and later struggled mightly the first couple years in engineering school to overcome my grossly inadequate HS education, then went on to get electrical engineering and industrial psychology undergrad degrees, an MBA and a Doctorate in International Finance and Management at Pace U in NYC. Ms. Busse should only know. Perhaps she was my motiviation. After a 4 year hitch in the USAF, I worked my way up to Corporate VP positions with global management responsibility at ITT, General Instrument, and Revlon. While at Revlon I was asked to form and chair a national advisory council for Quality and Productivity during the Reagan administration. Three years of that, a new national business model developed (TQM), and some global recognition and credentials, I bailed from working for others to form my own global management consulting company in 1980. I specialized in corporate turn-arounds and productivity improvement mostly with US corporations in their operations worldwide. I did accept some Canadian clients and couldn'...Expand for more