LEADERSHIP LESSONS: BILL BAYLESS
Title: President and CEO
Age: 44
First job: Laborer at Westvaco Paper Factory
Favorite quote: —How a man plays the game shows something of his character; how he loses shows all of it.—Unknown
Ideal leader: Ronald Reagan
Greatest challenge as a leader: Putting people in positions that maximize their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses
Best advice someone ever gave you: To heck with the bankers, to heck with the analysts?just run your business.
Favorite author: Jim Connelly
Playing on your iPod right now: Cross Canadian Ragweed
Hobbies: Reading and working out