now. It’s very likely within 10 years, they’ll likely not know who (subject name) was. That’s ok, it
doesn’t matter. 10, 15 or 20 people who will remember me but have succeeded me and hopefully
taken this place farther than I was able to take it in my time. Whew. Long answer; sorry. (laugh)“take care of their (the staff’s) needs, which is kind of where my emotional
intelligence is right now”A3 A lot of people were involved in setting up a coordinating committee. Do you know what you
have to do to shut down an agency? A lot of regulatory, a lot of rules, regulations, contracts that
you’re going to have to cancel. How do you get those audited? What do you do about the finances,
the records? There’s money being spent and youshutting things down. How much beyond the ’re
closure date You know things are going to come in months after – how are you going to handle that?
you close mechanism to do this. So I had all my division – you’ve got to have a process and
heads around theclosure plan. We’re going to RIF ( table: we have to map out the reduction-in-
forcerecords set up to RIF people? The issue was more ) somebody; what does that mean? Are our
so a function transfer issue. There was no question about qualifying for a job, as all the jobs were gone.
Where you stand in retention order is less an issue. But whether you’re entitled to a job for a function
that’s being transferred, that’s another issue.
Researcher: So the people that were involved, did they have any role in shaping your emotional
intelligence when you speak of the relationship and interaction?
(^) A3: Sure, yeah, I had some division chiefs that were
really into it and did an excellent job of trying to lay out all the requirements and identifying people who
would have to – who could do that work. The other
Lot of people
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