Business as a force for good

One of my “missions,” if you will, is to show that you can do well by doing good. Put another way, you can build a business that grows and achieves great things, while also working hard to make your community (and the world) a better place.

If I can show that it’s possible to kick butt and help others at the same time, the hope is that more leaders of companies will follow suit. That will allow me to truly have that out-sized, positive impact I’m striving for ;)

This is why the article that Hypepotamus put out this week pleased me so much. The article, titled, Flying Into A Triple-Digit Growth Spurt, Mobile Agency Dragon Army Commits to Hiring Minority Scholarship Students, highlights both our fast growth along with our commitment to the community. A bit from that piece:

Dragon Army, one of Atlanta’s top-ranked mobile development and design agencies, has tripled in size over the last year and, with a new 12,000+ square foot office on the Atlanta BeltLine, plans to double again. But founder and CEO Jeff Hilimire is just as concerned about building a pipeline of diverse employees as he is about those traditional growth metrics.

As part of the Georgia State University Robinson College of Business’s Marketing RoundTable, an invitation-only group that includes marketing leaders of organizations like the Atlanta Hawks, Delta, and MailChimp, Dragon Army helps fund a scholarship for outstanding minority students at GSU.

If you read the article and think your company might follow suit on the same commitment that we did, please let me know!