John G. Higbe, 2009 Honoree
- Title
- Vice president of IT
- Employer
- Landstar System Inc.
- Location
- Jacksonville, , Fla.
- First job:
- Plumber's helper
- Most valuable career advice:
- "Don't be a plumber."
- Favorite vice:
- Ice cream
- What do you love about IT?
- "Different problems always have to be solved with teamwork."
- Favorite gadget:
- Super Cyclone Rake
- People you'd invite to your dream dinner party:
- Vince Lombardi, Joe Gibbs and Urban Meyer
- Passions outside of work:
- "Faith, family and Florida Gator football."
- Your recreational best:
- "An 18 golf handicap when I was much younger.
- What's in your MP3 player?
- James Patterson audiobooks
- Twenty years ago, I was...
- "Younger and had more hair."
- What about you would surprise the people you work with?
- "My first choice was to become a dentist, but my first year of chemistry put an end to that dream."
- Leadership philosophy in a nutshell:
- "My leadership philosophy is contained in my favorite quotes from two books on team-building. They are "No one of us is as smart as all of us," from View All 2009 »