JANUARY 2021
PEPPER RUTLAND'S POST The Official Newsletter of James Pepper Rutland, Founder, President and CEO of MMR Group
About Pepper Rutland Founder, President, and CEO of MMR Group James B. Pepper Rutland, of Baton Rouge, is the Founder,
HERE'S WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW:
President, and CEO of MMR Group. MMR Group is a leader in the
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instrumentation and electrical construction industry and has
Q&A with Pepper - 2
performed over $6 billion in electrical and instrumentation services since the company's founding in 1991. MMR serves clients in the chemical and petrochemical, oil and gas, industrial manufacturing, power generation and power development markets. Under Pepper Rutland’s leadership, MMR continues to grow both regionally and nationally with over 30 branch offices across the globe. Through his determination and strong academic successes, Pepper was able to create his own company from the ground up. To this day, MMR Group is the largest privately-owned merit shop electrical and instrumentation contractor in America. The great stature and reputation of MMR Group has given Pepper Rutland the chance to expand his business footprint, breaking into new market segments, providing clients with expanded services and opening offices in new geographic locations.
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Q&A With Pepper Rutland The following interview questions were taken from Pepper Rutland's Surprisingly Free interview and IdeaMensch interview What’s the most important thing we should know about you? Pepper Rutland: I’m hard headed and refuse to quit or give up. Even sometimes to a fault.
What does your typical day look like and how do you make it productive? My typical day is spent reacting to problems, answering questions, resolving issues or conflicts, and directing our management team on the path and business model we have chosen. Unanswered questions or issues do nothing but slow progress.
What advice would you give your younger self? To be more patient. Sometimes quick reactions are truly knee-jerk, and you later wish you would have taken a little more time to think it through.
What is one failure you had as an entrepreneur, and how did you overcome it? To not listen to my gut instinct when I knew better, knew something wasn’t right but did it anyway because there was a compelling argument at the time. Listen to your gut, your heart, and your conscience.
Tell us something that's true that almost nobody agrees on. I believe in today’s lifestyle the entrepreneur can still succeed and help influence change. That the sophisticated society we live in has not dampened that spirit, even though it is much harder than it was 20 years ago.
What is your favorite quote? “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” William Pollard