Experience

Trico Corporation

• Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO & Strategic Initiatives

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  On January 1, 2016 I became CEO and promoted Jim Jung to the position of President; Jim is the 4th generation of Jung's to lead Trico Corporation and like me he started his career at Trico right out of college.In 2014 we continued the journey as a holacratic organization and rather than traditional titles we replaced them with the function and focus of our position on our team. My title, except for official business, is Strategic Initiatives, this this describes where my primary areas of responsibility are.This is a hard step to accept for many who work outside the four walls. There is a desire for some to be able to say, "Someone else gave me this level of responsibility", versus, "I am a member of a team and my/our function is this."

• CEO & President

  • Jan 2013 - Dec 2015

  These titles are more of a formality to meet requirements of being a corporation. Internally I still think of myself as coach and I focus on strategic initiatives.

• Coach

  • Jul 2011 - Dec 2013

  Trico began its journey as a holacratic organization in 2011. Former senior managers became coaches and working as a team became our future management style. Coaches helped other employees in departments learn about letting go of departments and becoming accountable teams.To be an effective holacratic organization everyone needs to be results focused, empowered and engaged, learn how to have functional objective discussions with everyone on the team present and implement corrective actions when the metics dictate a shortcoming.

• CEO & President

  • Jun 1977 - Dec 2011

• President

  • Jan 1994 - May 2003

  In the 1990's this was a transition from my father to me. After 17 years it was time to make the change from 2nd generation to 3rd. This is the traditional title for the person entrusted with the highest overall rank. This was part of the traditional militaristic organzational structure that later would change to a holacratic one.