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Association CEOs credit lessons learned as Boy Scouts

At least three current group executives have received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award for achievements later in life Sutton Woody Sutton—CEO of the $8 million-revenue Equipment Leasing and Finance Association—did not always lead trade groups. Nor did the retired U.S. Navy rear admiral always command ships and sailors at sea. Sometimes his leadership was exercised in small ways, like when he was assistant scoutmaster of a troop of disadvantaged boys while he attended graduate school at MIT. But like his young charges in Cambridge, Mass., Sutton had to learn leadership somewhere—and he first learned it in the Boy Scouts, where he attained the rank of Eagle Scout in… Read More