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240: Expert Interview: Turning Weeders to Leaders, with Jeff McManus
Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love
English - April 01, 2016 05:00 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★ - 1 ratingCareers Business Education business career careers entrepreneur entrepreneurs inspirational inspiring turningpoints Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Cultivating and connecting a team of people is a lot like growing a garden, says landscape specialist Jeff McManus. Once the vegetable falls off the plant, it starts to rot. If it's not attached and growing, it's rotting.” At Ole Miss, the people who care for the plants are showing the importance of cultivating each other. The creator of Weeders to Leaders, Jeff is director of landscape services at the University of Mississippi, affectionately known as “Ole Miss.” The program sprang from his love of growing plants, but quickly came to be about growing the people that grow the plants.