Overcoming Adversity and Leadership: Lawrence J. Pino, Esq.
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Overcoming Adversity and Leadership: Lawrence J. Pino, Esq.
story -Founder, Chairman and CEO of Dynetech Corporation
By Howard Edward Haller, Ph. D.
This groundbreaking leadership research by has received
extensive endorsements and enthusiastic reviews from well-known
prominent business, political, and academic leaders who either
participated in the study or reviewed the research findings. You
will discover the proven success habits and secrets of people
who, in spite of difficult or life threatening challenges shaped
their own destiny to become successful, effective leaders. The
full results of this research will be presented in the upcoming
book by Dr. Howard Edward Haller titled "Leadership: View from
the Shoulders of Giants."
The nine initial prominent successful leaders who overcame
adversity that were interviewed included: Dr. Tony Bonanzino,
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch, Monzer Hourani, U.S. Senator Daniel
Inouye, Dr. John Malone, Larry Pino, U.S. Army Major General Sid
Shachnow, Dr. Blenda Wilson, and Zig Ziglar.
The data from the above nine research participants was
materially augmented by seven other successful leaders who
overcame adversity including: Jack Canfield, William Draper III,
Mark Victor Hansen, J. Terrence Lanni, Angelo Mozilo, Dr. Nido
Qubein, and Dr. John Sperling.
Additionally, five internationally known and respected
leadership scholars offered their reviews of the leadership
research findings including: Dr. Ken Blanchard, Jim Kouzes, Dr.
John Kotter, Dr. Paul Stoltz, and Dr. Meg Wheatley.
This is a short biography of one of the principal participants
who generously contributed their time and insight for this
important research into the phenomenon of how prominent
successful leaders overcome adversity and obstacles.
This is Larry Pino's story: Larry Pino "grew up moving every
three years" because his "father was in the [U.S.] Air Force."
In 1973 he graduated from University of Notre Dame; he then
received his J.D. from New York University Law School in 1976.
After becoming a young lawyer, he "struggled to build his law
practice for several years."
Another adversity or challenge in his adult life "was the
complete failure of my first and only campaign to run for
political office": "I probably could write the book on how not
to run a successful campaign, because I made every mistake under
the sun. During the course of that campaign, that if I had just
simply stayed home and never met a soul, I would have gotten
more votes than if I had actually actively campaigned, which I
did, for four months."
He went further to say, "As a matter of fact, the write-in
candidate would have done a better job than I did at getting
votes out." He "suffered a terrible loss beyond the defeat at
the polls."
Next, Pino "tried several business ventures." One of the early
businesses in which "I swung hard was when I created was a firm
called 'Crepes to Go.'" Of that venture, Pino said, "I probably
made every mistake under the sun, and it turned out to be an
absolute disaster, the only business that I ever really, just
totally botched, from beginning to end." Larry then added "Now,
out of that emerged a mess, emerged lawsuits, emerged a failure,
I didn't declare bankruptcy, but I lost a ton of money, hard
feelings, broken friendships, just a whole bunch of stuff."
Larry "settled down to focus on building [his] law practice."
Once he "had accumulated some money practicing law and had been
very successful selling other people's seminars," Pino "started
another business selling my own seminar, which unfortunately
failed and wiped me out financially." Out of desperation Pino
"turned to the new format of 'infomercials' as [his] primary
advertising method." Pino said, "This strategic change in
marketing [or advertising] materially turned this business
around, creating a profitable company."
In 2002, Pino merged his American Cash Flow seminar business
with several infomercial and seminar-related businesses to
create Dynetech Corporation. He described, "The combined firm I
bought had about $8 million in annual sales." Pino, as Chairman
and CEO, has built "Dynetech Corporation into a strong and
vibrant enterprise development and management firm, which is a
process provider, with over $175,000,000 in annual sales."
Larry has successfully overcome various obstacles and "as an
entrepreneur has started or managed more than 45 successful
businesses." In 2004, "Inc. magazine named his firm the 71st
fastest growing privately held firm on their Inc. 500 list." He
is married to Janet Horvath-Pino and they have two sons and a
young daughter. Copyright 2006