Dr. Charles Little
Dr. Little
is a native Tennessean, born and
raised in Nashville. He graduated from high school there in 1966 and
attended Tennessee Tech University for his freshman and sophomore years
of college.
After his first two years of college, Dr. Little entered the United
States Air Force where he served two years. In 1970 he returned to
finish his college degree, majoring in business, at the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville. Upon graduation with his BS degree, he remained
at the University of Tennessee to pursue the Masters in Business
Administration (MBA). He was awarded that degree in March of 1974, and
immediately accepted a position with the United States Interstate
Commerce Commission (ICC) in Washington, DC. Dr. Little served almost
nine years as a criminal investigator with the ICC in Washington,
Chicago, and Fort Worth, achieving the level of District Director and
Supervisor of Investigations over an eight-state area while in the Fort
Worth regional office. He moved into this supervisory position after
less than six years of federal service. During this time, he either
participated in or led major projects and investigations involving such
criminal activities as illegal agricultural cooperatives, bogus
brokerage activities, "lumping," weight fraud, and duplicate payments,
all of which were covered by national news media.
Dr. Little was offered the position of Director, Transportation Services
with the United States General Services Administration (GSA) in November
of 1982. He accepted this position and spent the remainder of his career
in various managerial and then executive positions working out of GSA’s
regional offices in Fort Worth, Texas. During the course of Dr. Little’s
career, he led supply projects for military activities in the Middle
East, Somolia, and Falklands. He also led supply projects for such
disasters as floods, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, and the bombing
of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
During his career with the federal government, Dr. Little (beginning in
1980) pursued his Ph.D. in business at the University of North Texas.
After earning this degree in 1985, he began teaching as an adjunct
professor in the MBA programs at Dallas Baptist University and Texas
Wesleyan University. He taught various graduate classes in project
management and marketing at these two institutions. During that time, he
began writing his book High
Performance Work Teams, which he now uses in his classes.
In July of 2004, Dr. Little retired from the U.S. General Services
Administration in order to accept the position of Associate Dean of
Business at Texas Wesleyan University. He remains in this position
today.
Last Update 08/19/08 07:46 AM