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Video Blog: Management Lessons from the Girl Scouts

Posted by Bill Taylor on March 3, 2008 6:11 PM

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I am a GS volunteer and love my work with Scouting. This video blog was awesome. Thank you.
Debbie Esposito, Service Unit Manager and Troop leader.

- Posted by Debbie Esposito
March 7, 2008 9:21 AM

funny... I have a few 10th and 11th graders wanting to join. About 2-4 years ago when my daughters where in 4th-5th grades GS was not really too cool. By the time girls would get to the 9th grade troops would fizzle out to 4 girls.
I have recently told my girls (cadets grades 7-10) ..we are changing the face of girl scouting.... its amazing that girls really want to join...
We try to do things..... activities and trips that are real. College tours, resume writing, cruises (I sure didnt have these kinds of field trips when i was a gs..lol) selling dinners not just cookies, yard sales, they have even created our own email address for communications
....and Just when you think volunteering and caring is out the window...my girls take you for a loop.
I cant live with my 21 girls and I cant live with out them.

Nine of my 21 girls have been in scouting since kindergarten/ 1st grade.
Go ...Girl Power !


MTC, NJ

- Posted by JM
March 7, 2008 9:49 PM

I have been in the GS organization for a total of 12 years (4 Scout/ 8 Troop Leader volunteer) and it is refreshing to hear as well as validates the GS organization as more than "just cookies". Cookie season, as I have experienced with my Troop, is a critical badge earning opportunity and lesson to study basic economics, marketing, sales, finance, and customer service.
I hope you volunteer to your daughters' troop.

It is always great to have parents volunteer and host a badge project or field trip.

Yours in Girl Scouting,
Amy, NYC

- Posted by Amy, NYC.
March 16, 2008 12:21 PM

I was fortunate to meet Kathy just over 12 months ago. She is an inspirational and charismatic person. The work whe is doing is amazing.
I wonder how important it is to have someone leading the organisation who has been a part of the organisation? Can someone who has not been a part of an organisation such as Girl Scouts still achieve the results Kathy is achieving? In other words can the lesson of 'understanding the past in order to go forward' be applied by an 'external' CEO?

- Posted by Wendy
March 26, 2008 9:48 PM

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Bill TaylorWilliam C. Taylor is an agenda-setting thinker, writer, and entrepreneur. His new book, Mavericks at Work, has been a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller. As cofounder of Fast Company, he launched a magazine that earned a passionate following among executives and entrepreneurs. He is an adjunct professor at Babson College and a former associate editor of Harvard Business Review.