{"id":3337,"date":"2014-08-21T07:16:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T07:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3337"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T17:20:55","slug":"top-companies-have-top-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2014\/08\/21\/top-companies-have-top-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Companies Have Top Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3338\" style=\"width: 542px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/inc5000\/list\/2014\/state\/in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3338 \" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-08-20 at 12.56.58 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-12.56.58-PM.png\" width=\"542\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-12.56.58-PM.png 542w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-12.56.58-PM-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Includes Apparatus, Sun King, and Hannapin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Think about the following numbers for just one second. \u00a0Imagine three-year growth rates of 362%, 100%, and 89%. \u00a0What do those companies have in common? \u00a0Wabash leadership!<\/p>\n<p>Sun King &#8211; 362%<\/p>\n<p>Hannapin Marketing &#8211; 100%<\/p>\n<p>Apparatus &#8211; 89%<\/p>\n<p>This is great news for those companies and for our alumni involved.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of those alumni, I thought it might be interesting to &#8220;explore&#8221; what these guys majored in while at Wabash.<\/p>\n<p>At Sun King, the father-son duo is Omar &#8217;61 and Clay &#8217;97 Robinson. \u00a0Omar was an Economics major while Clay majored in Speech.<\/p>\n<p>At Hannapin, Pat East &#8217;00 was an English major.<\/p>\n<p>At Apparatus, founder\/CEO Kelly Pfledderer &#8217;96 was a German major and President Aman Brar &#8217;99 was Economics and Religion.<\/p>\n<p>Study what you&#8217;re passionate about and do what you love! \u00a0Pretty good recipe, right out of the liberal arts cookbook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about the following numbers for just one second. \u00a0Imagine three-year growth rates of 362%, 100%, and 89%. \u00a0What do those companies have in common? \u00a0Wabash leadership! Sun King &#8211; 362% Hannapin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/08\/Screen-Shot-2014-08-20-at-12.56.58-PM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3337"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3337\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}