By
Dr. Wilson Triviño
Good Corporate
Neighboor
Addressing the Atlanta
Press Club on April 17, Philip Teel,
corporate vice president and -president,
Northrop Grumman Mission System remarks were
to announce some new bold initiatives
building on a over a twenty year
relationship with Georgia.
Teel a Georgia Tech graduate has
strong ties to Georgia, a native of
Columbus
and father of two daughters who graduated
from University
of Georgia
is proud of his Georgia roots.
When
Teel first went north on his rise up the
corporate ladder, he told a captive
audience, “that as a Southerner he would
speed up his speech if the audience would
slow down their listening.
Then they could meet in the middle”.
He
was glad to be home address a southern
audience.
Even though Northrop
Grumman is a major global corporation that
provides a majority of the state’s
technological infrastructure for Georgia, the
general public is unaware of their work.
Teel’s presentation was announcing
initiatives that would expand their presence
in
Georgia
and continue the commitment of being a good
corporate citizen in an ever changing global
economy.
The announcement
centered on three new initiatives.
First increase the presence in Georgia by
creating forty two hundred new jobs.
Second, continue being committed to
community educational partnerships and third
looking for new opportunities to develop
relationships throughout the state.
Most exciting is the
news that Georgia will be a stop to host the
company’s Zero Gravity air plane on October
7, 2008.
These two scheduled flights will
allow educators and journalist the
opportunity to experience zero gravity while
performing scientific experiments.
The goal is to maximize the message
of the importance of science.
What better way than to disseminate
this lesson through the lenses of educators
and journalists.
As best captured by
their promotional video to air on Georgia
television, Northrop Grumman is focused on
“defining the future”.
Political Scientist Dr. Wilson
Triviño resides in Marietta,
Georgia and is a
speaker and writer for ABC Vision. A consulting
firm that focuses on leadership, change, and innovation. He may be
reached at abcvision@gmail.com
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