{"id":1748,"date":"2009-05-15T10:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2009-05-15T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T15:14:28","slug":"rochester-convocation-features-paul-horgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2009\/05\/15\/rochester-convocation-features-paul-horgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester convocation features Paul Horgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1749\" alt=\"roch_convo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/04\/roch_convo.jpg\" width=\"186\" height=\"280\" \/>Paul Horgen, Former CEO of Think Mutual Bank in Rochester, Minn. will deliver the second annual Rochester convocation address on Tuesday, May 19 at Bethel Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Horgen completed a 40-year career in 2007 including 21 years as CEO of Think Mutual, the seventh largest bank in Minnesota. His quest for business success started on a family farm in the mid-1960s then took a sharp upward spike in 1969 when he joined the U.S. Army, went to Vietnam, and learned leadership lessons from the ground up.<\/p>\n<p>Simply asking good questions led him to a position in banking and in 1972 to his first CEO job at the age of 24. He held that position with three consistently successful companies for a total of 34 years. Horgen&#8217;s address to the Augsburg community, titled &#8220;A Search for Satisfaction: Can you Find It in Less than 40 Years of Looking?&#8221;, will draw on his business and personal experiences.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Though he continued his formal education with four years of college, Horgen&#8217;s career was impacted significantly by the long-term mentoring of two senior scholars, one from Princeton and the other from Harvard. He makes the claim, with supporting facts, that senior executive mentoring is a requirement for business success (if you care about efficiency!). &#8220;We are all a bit like a turtle on a fence post; we didn&#8217;t get here without a lot of help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Horgen has been married for 38 years to Betty. They have four children and two grandchildren. He is a private pilot, plays golf, rides motorcycles, and loves boats, books, and travel. He is a 1981 graduate of the University of Minnesota\u2013Minnesota Management Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Horgen, Former CEO of Think Mutual Bank in Rochester, Minn. will deliver the second annual Rochester convocation address on Tuesday, May 19 at Bethel Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Horgen completed a 40-year career in 2007 including 21 years as CEO of Think Mutual, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,694,2238,2474,2901],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-a-search-for-satisfaction-can-you-find-it-in-less-than-40-years-of-looking","tag-convocation","tag-paul-horgen","tag-rochester-convocation","tag-think-mutual-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}