{"id":486,"date":"2021-06-23T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=486"},"modified":"2021-06-07T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-07T16:39:00","slug":"john-allison-perspectives-on-pursuing-an-intellectual-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/23\/john-allison-perspectives-on-pursuing-an-intellectual-career\/","title":{"rendered":"John Allison | Perspectives on Pursuing an Intellectual Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>As a professional intellectual or an \u201cintellectual professional,\u201d there is a wide variety of possible avenues for advancing Objectivism in your professional work. In this session, John Allison talks about his work and career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Allison is an Executive in Residence at the Wake Forest University School of Business. He is the retired president and CEO of the Cato Institute and was chairman and CEO of BB&amp;T Corporation. During Allison\u2019s tenure as CEO from 1989 to 2008, BB&amp;T grew from $4.5 billion to $152 billion in assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a professional intellectual or an \u201cintellectual professional,\u201d there is a wide variety of possible avenues for advancing Objectivism in your professional work. In this session, John Allison talks about his work and career. Mr. Allison is an Executive in Residence at the Wake Forest University School of Business. He is the retired president and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[515,442,395,655,119,216,657,654,656,362,653],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-activism","tag-career","tag-college","tag-graduation","tag-intellectual","tag-life","tag-masters","tag-phd","tag-profession","tag-professor","tag-public-speaking","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}