Leadership Breakfast with Tim Echols
During our last Leadership Breakfast, we got to sip coffee and talk to Tim Echols, a Commissioner on Georgia’s Public Service Commission. What is the PSC you ask? Well, the Georgia Public Service Commission is a constitutionally created 5-person body that is charged with regulating the utility companies and other industries. Don’t worry if you didn’t make it to the breakfast, and if that description doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to you, because during this Leadership Breakfast we captured the entire breakfast on video for you below. And, bonus, here are a few of our favorite quotes from the conversation.
“You have to be responsive to people. When they contact you, you need to be paying attention. It’s a point of pride for me to solve people’s problems, and I think responding is #1. People appreciate the effort and the response. They expect a response.”
"Being willing to come into hostile environments is very important. Going to where you’re not necessarily the star.”
“Every state has a public service commission - because companies have territorial monopolies. You need an entity that is protecting the public interest. But we aren’t a consumer protection group per se. I’m holding this wallet that represents rate payers, and I have to determine how much money is going to come out of it to do things like keep the gas flowing and keep the electric on.”
Watch the full video of our Leadership Breakfast with Commissioner Tim Echols
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