A company man

摘要

If a lifetime of experiences in agriculture, finance, operational management and corporate commerce prepare someone for running a major part of one of the biggest and most iconic companies in the meat and poultry industry, then Jon Nash was more prepared than most to do just that. But he's the first to admit that all that education, training and experience were not the only reasons he wanted to work for Cargill. "There were two other factors," he explained. "One is, I grew up with Cargill. My father worked for Cargill; he knew a lot of people who worked at Cargill. And second, to be more specific about it, the company's core values and guiding principles made me want to be there - and nowhere else."