Davis at DuSable:
Erroll B. Davis Jr., ’67, was one of several GSB alumni who convened in Chicago
for the annual DuSable Business Conference in April.
Davis’s Tips for Success
At the DuSable Conference, Davis offered the following
advice:
- Realize that personal integrity and success are inexorably linked.
- Achieve flexibility. Those who do thrive and endure.
- Distinguish personal limits from those imposed by others. “Whether we rightly or wrongly believe limits are being set for us by others, the danger is that it seduces us into not understanding our own limits.”
- Master the basics and develop an ethic that includes hard work, commitment, and attention to detail. “These things never go out of style.”
- Cultivate a voracious appetite for feedback, then be prepared to act.
- Realize that all careers are built on small successes and failures; successful careers simply contain more successes.
- Don’t overvalue formal procedures; innovation fuels success. “Otherwise, you can expect to become toast overnight.”
- Know that you can make lasting changes, but first position yourself to do so.--S.D.
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Several of the 24 panelists and speakers at the DuSable Business Conference were GSB alumni or students.
Kelly Dixon, ’89, senior manager of the financial services practice of Andersen Consulting, Chicago
James Hill Jr., ’67, founder and managing partner of Hill, Taylor, Chicago
Larry Hughes, part-time GSB student and managing
director of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Kansas City, Missouri
Dumas M. Simeus, ’72, chairman and CEO of Siméus Foods International, Mansfield, Texas
Mark Standard, ’92, certified planner for Salomon Smith Barney’s private client services group, New York
Karl E. White, ’95, managing principal and CEO of
Gracian Capital Management, Boston
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