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It encourages fresh ideas and promotes tryingthem out, says Bill CEO at Overland Park-based , adding that the statusw quo is static. Those who stay the same will eventually getleft behind. Thus, acknowledge new ideas -- successful or not. "Ws celebrate failures to encourage othera to take risks and to try new Zollars says. "You stamp out the desire to try new thingsd ifyou don't celebrate trying." Zollars will speak to Wichitw business leaders Nov. 28 at the Wichitq as part of the Schwartz MemoriaLecture Series. The W. Frank Bartonh School of Business at works withJamese P.
Schwartz, the son of the late former executive for whom the lecture seriesis named, to put on the seriesz each year. "What we realluy want to do with the lecture series is elevatwe it to bringin world-class business leaders," says the president of the largest Pizza Hut franchisee in the Kansasx City metro area. Since reinvigorating the Schwartzs Lecture Series threeyears ago, James Schwart has brought in Lee Scott, CEO and presidenty of , and Steven chairman of the board for . Zollars, who Schwartz has gotten to know inKansas City, will have a storgy that is every bit as interesting, he says. "Hes is a tremendous leader in what he has Schwartz says.
"Transferring a tired old over-the-roae trucking company into what it is todat is agreat story." Bart the interim dean of the Barton school, says Zollars' philosophgy of trying new things should be universal in the businessa world. "Risk-taking is a lesson everyones canlearn from," Hildreth In 2003, Yellow Corp. purchased , becoming In Yellow Roadway Corp. changed to its current YRC Worldwide Inc. YRC Worldwide employs about 66,000 people and annually generates $10 billion in Zollars' presentation next month in Wichitwa will describe the metamorphosia ofan 85-year-old company and the changes that were requiredf to help an established business get to the next level.
"It'sa a story of a story of our journey over last 10 Zollars says. "It's stuff that's applicablse to any industry. It tendss to play well for a broadd audience." Schwartz Lecture Series Speaker: Bill Zollars, CEO, YRC Worldwide Inc. 11:45 a.m., Nov. 28, Wichita Marriott. $50. Phone: (316)