348: It Takes More Than Hard Work—Part 2: Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), D. J. Powers Company
Join us for Part 2 of our interview with Roy Austin, CFO (emeritus), of D. J. Powers Company and learn how Roy acquired new coaching skills as his interest in helping small businesses continued to grow.
“When I got there, I discovered that the controller they had hired when they bought this plant had not lasted a week. He had said, ‘No, this is over my head.’ Then they had hired another one on the 1st of December, and he had lasted two weeks. I came in at the end of January. Well, the difference was that I had moved from Kingsport (Tennessee) to Savannah, so I had to figure out how to make this thing work.
“I started reading everything that I could, whether it was the software operations manual or whatever it was, to try to help me improve my skills and my knowledge so that I could make this thing work. I didn’t look at it as anything other than ‘This is an exciting challenge.'” –Roy Austin
