Johnson Mike Johnson, CEO of the National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association, felt he was ready for leadership at a young age. "My first job was as day-camp counselor at a YMCA in Frankfort, Ky.," he said. "I actually went to the executive director of the Y as a 12-year-old going to the camp, and I said, ‘I think I'm ready to be a counselor.' "He said I was a little young, and I said, ‘I'm ready.'" Johnson wasn't really ready, he says now, but he was ready to learn. "(The director) gave me a shot in the counselor-in-training program the very next year," he said. "I got promoted to full counselor at 14, running my own group of kids, and I continued to work there summers… Read More