Robert L. Jacks, 2009 Honoree
- Title
- CIO
- Employer
- The Chickasaw Nation
- Location
- Ada, , la.
- First job:
- Pumping gas
- Life's ambition or title you'd like to hold someday:
- CEO
- Best mentoring relationship:
- "With my daughter."
- People you'd invite to your dream dinner party:
- Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Bart Starr and Bear Bryant
- In whom do you confide when weighing professional decisions?
- "My father."
- Leadership philosophy in a nutshell:
- "My leadership style is based on the Golden Rule. People follow me because I can comfortably operate at any level of the organization. However, the major reason I have been so successful as a leader is that I treat people as I want to be treated, and what
- Best project:
- "In the past 12 months, we have focused on implementing Bally Technologies' ACSC system. We had two measurements of success: uptime and revenue. We used to lose the old system for hours at a time every weekend, costing us millions of dollars. Since the sy