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Bill Russell: Beautifying Gwinnett’s Landscape Corner By Corner

Warm, witty, charming. Those are just some of the words that describe Bill Russell, founder of Russell Landscape Group–one of the most famous landscape companies in the Southeast. As a young boy, Russell wasn’t as familiar with the world of beautifying and perfecting landscapes. He was raised on a farm just forty miles south...

Richard Tucker: Trailblazing a Legacy of Leadership

Some of the earliest lessons Richard Tucker, CEO and co-founder of Arlington Capital, learned about being an effective leader, he gleaned at the tender age of nine when he was still a young boy fresh in his elementary school years. Tucker was raised by parents who inherently displayed the tenets of great leadership in everything they did...

Leaders & Legends: Louise Radloff

In the parking lot of a building that bears her name off 316 in Lawrenceville, Louise Radloff gets out of her car. It’s rainy and cold out this morning, but she’s unhindered by these kinds of things. She’s 86 but feels good. She still runs four and a half miles on the treadmill at 5 every morning...

Leaders & Legends: Manfred Sandler

Some of the best ideas come along when we least expect. Lt. Manfred Sandler was 23 years old, serving compulsory time in a South African military hospital when he embarked on an idea.  Quickly, he scribbled in a notebook plans for a medical center that made sense to him, drawing up the design to...

Leaders & Legends: Wayne Hill

Some call them moments of lucidity – those fleeting, crystal clear glimpses that sum up a situation or circumstance in a way not previously seen. In a lifetime of public service, leadership and decidedly humble beginnings, Wayne Hill, now 80 years old, says it was in these rare moments that it came into focus...

Leaders & Legends: Phillip Beard

On an August day in 1984, a man from Memphis, Tennessee came to town. He was doing the business of the federal government, charged with selling an old post office building in the downtown Buford square. City Commission Chairman Phillip Beard greeted him, and they walked across the street together. It was blistering hot...

Leaders & Legends: Dr. William L. Sheals

There’s a framed illustration on the wall outside the office of Dr. William L. Sheals. It’s a rough pencil sketch of a church building and adjoining architecture on the back cover of a legal pad. Across the roof of one building are the words “ED. BLDG,” and on the other, “ADM. BLDG.”  Across the...

Leaders & Legends: Nick Masino

Ask Nick Masino about the importance of human connection. Masino – a man to whom conversation seems as natural as the next breath, who strings words together with effortless aplomb, who assembles spoken sentences and paragraphs, hands gesturing in vigorous punctuation all the while – will get to the point soon enough.