November 6, 2009 – Nashville Business Journal – Nashville, TN, US
On a recent weekday, nearly two dozen Nashville businessmen and women were sprawled around a large living room, cash strewn on the floor in ones, fives, twenties, even a one hundred dollar bill.
The money was payment for crimes committed, and by the end of the day, the group had collected $1,200 for charity.
The “offenders” forced to pay up were part of the Signature Executive Program offered each year by the Scarlett Leadership Institute at Belmont University. Their crime was starting a sentence with a “no,” a “but” or a “however” — all negatives they were learning to delete from their conversations.
It was the third day of a week-long retreat at the Monteagle Inn about an hour and a half from Nashville. The participants, identified by their employers as possessing high growth potential, were there to develop leadership and life skills to become more effective managers.
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