Executives pass along advice gleaned from their early years of leading an association Every association CEO has a rookie season, that one learning the ropes of heading a group. For Grocery Manufacturers Association CEO Pam Bailey, it was when she became head of the National Committee for Quality Health Care. Bailey was recruited from the Reagan administration in 1987 to lead the organization. It was a small group that previously had only two staffers: a CEO and his assistant. Soon there would be only Bailey, as the assistant would move with the CEO to his new job after two weeks' help with the transition. "I asked her if she could have, on my first day, a list of… Read More