Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

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the organization. 2,000 people looking for jobs. I could call in some chips and get people a temporary
job, get them reassigned by the handful do 2,000. And you always run into the issue of, you – but I can’t
help John but not Paul or June or Mary? I’m not about picking winners and losers, just trying to help
as many people as I could. Get money for training that’s hard as it has to be related to the job. What if –
someone wants to try a whole new career? That was a real challenge but what I learned from it was that it
was emotionally draining ... that I could do something of that magnitude if I set my mind to it
... at the end of the day, if I did what the right thing, I could live with myself. Oh by the I thought was
way, I was putting myself out of a job, too. I was trying to help everybody else, but I did nothing for
myself. That wasn’t even in the calculation. If people work hard, they get noticed. Somebody’s
going to reach out and try to grab you because they see some talent and some energy, and they want to
try to use that somewhere else. That’s what happened in my case.

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A4A5 Response embedded in narrative aboveThe paradigm for research in general is (^) – I have the
ideas, I talk about it with some colleagues but I do so in a very guarded manner because I don’t want
the word to get out that I’m thinking about this in this particular way, because somebody else might
jump my effort. The people who were on the project – if I bring in the funding, they work for me.
That’s the general rule. One guy, one project and subordinates. And it works in some cases. Some of
the biggest Nobel Prizethat way. For these bigger things, where it takes -type breakthroughs are done
more expertise than either I or anybody brings to the table, the only way you can make that happen is to –
you don’t shore up your ego – that’s a dangerous
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particular way, because somebody else might jump my effort”
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