leader, you mentioned flexibility. Were there other attributes of that experience that helped make you a
better leader?
A4: I think I became maybe a little bit mocompassionate to the staff. When the staff needed to re
leave two hours early or something to go pick up kids. I used to be like, ‘what?’ I think you become
more in tune with what I would call the general population, because most people do have children.
Not everyone, I recognize, but the majority. And I was kind of on the outside looking in. So I kind of
became in tune with them because I became one of them. I also had to figure out how to do my job,
because now I had those same things whwas sick. So how do I get my job done? How do I en my kid
make sure that I don’t hold everything in, in terms of knowledge, and pass it to my deputy and that type of
thing? You want to delegate but I’m kind of a little bit of a control freak and I like to know everything
that’s going on. When you’re not there because you have to stay home with your kid, how do you deal
with that as a manager and a leader, and still stay connected? How do you trust people that they’re
going to get the job done and do it the way thwould hope that they would do it, because you hope at you
that you’d trained them and give them the thought processes appropriately. So I had to relinquish a
little bit more than I did before I had a child.(^)
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because I became one them”
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A5 Response embedded in narrative above LEARNING
A7 The first one is when I was a relatively junior officer, I was fortunate to get command of a small
ship, crew of 20. But it was located in a small town in a rural part of the United States. And I was the
senior Federal person in that whole area and whatgave me the opportunity to do was represent the it
Federal government to private sector people who ran
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whole area and what it gave me the opportunity to do was represent the
Federal government”
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