Doug and Tamzen Johnson: A package deal - Southernminn.com
“I’m there first,” Doug said. “You make decisions quickly, and that’s likely because in the service your life depended on it. ”. That was something the Johnsons learned during a Minnesota Executive Program at the Carlson School of Management in Minneapolis as part of Doug’s... “He did a deal where he divided us up by extroverts and introverts and had us plan a trip,” Doug said. “The I’s were all we’ll go here and it’ll be OK, and then the E’s had to know what they were going to wear, eat and how they were going to get there. At 12 years old, Tamzen, the daughter of a businessman and school teacher in New Richland, found she had a knack with numbers. “The week after my mother died [from acute leukemia], my dad sat me down in the chair and said, ‘You need to write this down,’” she said. So when Tamzen graduated from high school in 1977, she attended Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, to become a professional singer. “I found out really fast that I was a talented person in a small pool but when I got into a bigger pool, there were a lot of talented people there,” she said. Then, Tamzen thought she’d be a forensic medical examiner like the old TV show, “Quincy. At that point, Tamzen didn’t know what she wanted to be, but one thing was for sure, she wasn’t done with numbers. Source: www.southernminn.com
