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ELEVATE / EDUCATE BLACKSTONE ENVIRONMENTAL STAFF SUPPORTS REGIONAL SCIENCE OLYMPIAD Blackstone Environmental Senior Project Managers, Lindsay James and Anne Melia, volunteered at the Kansas Northeast Regional Science Olympiad on February 23 at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. James and Melia have supported Science Olympiad competitions many times. This year, James led the Blackstone team by preparing a comprehensive Water Quality exam suitable for both middle school and high school students. More than 50 area schools competed in middle school and high school divisions. Teams of two students from participating schools had 50 minutes to complete the 100-point exam consisting of multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions. At Blackstone, James provides geological and
environmental consulting services to government and private clients. Her expertise includes a wide variety of environmental and solid waste projects with emphasis on groundwater compliance and hydrogeological site characterization. Melia manages and supports projects for public, private and industrial sector clients. Her expertise includes environmental compliance and monitoring, site assessments, risk-based corrective action, permitting, solid waste planning and hazardous waste determination and more. Blackstone Environmental is a consulting firm comprised of engineers, geologists, hydrogeologists, and scientists specializing in many environmental and engineering fields including solid waste and landfill services, environmental assessment and design, civil engineering, energy sector, natural resources planning and permitting, and regulatory compliance.
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in everyone. This applies to both high speed driving and leading a business. 2)Experience helps! I noticed when Dan Williams, CEO of Garver and our most experi- enced driver (he has prior track experience), got in a car, he shot right out into the track with a heavy dose of throttle and immediately went faster than the rest of us. The same thing applies to leading. You may be a great professional in your field, but there is no substitute for prior experience leading a group of people. 3)The flashiest and most powerful vehicle is not necessarily the fastest vehicle to get around a track in. The 550+ horsepower orange Lamborghini was the flashiest car there. And it was indeed fast and handled well. But the car the driving instructors pre- ferred to take people in hot laps in was the 375-horsepower Porsche 911. One of them pulled me aside and said it was by far the best car there to go fast around the track in – and the most ordinary (if any of them were) least powerful car there. The same applies to leadership. Sometimes the quiet one, the one with the least flash and outward ego is the most effective person to lead a firm in this business, or any other for that matter. 4)There’s something to be said for having the latest model. Comparing the last model supercars – all of which have automatic transmissions and tons of computerized driving assistance – to the crude brute of the Cobra roadster – really pointed out some differ- ences. While I have a history of liking overpowered cars with less than great handling, if you want to go around a track quickly, there’s no substitute for all-wheel drive and com- puters that know exactly what gear you should be in. Same thing applies to leadership. Sometimes some younger blood – schooled in the latest technology of business – can do a better job than us old dinosaurs. That doesn’t mean – like the Cobra – that we aren’t fun to keep in the stable, too! 5)You gotta have fun with it. The older I get the more aware of it I am that if you aren’t having fun – if you don’t really love what you do every day – just like driving a car – you need to move over and let someone else do it. While they may not drive just like you, they will hopefully do a better job of it! If this kind of event sounds good to you, keep your eyes and ears open for our next one! And meanwhile, “drive” carefully! MARK ZWEIG is Zweig Group’s chairman and founder. Contact him at mzweig@zweiggroup.com.
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