Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

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asked. It gets back to you have to rely on these people, especially the technical stuff. I don’t know


personnel wanted to. I learned more about environmental – I learned more about personnel that I– (^)
we couldn’t even give away our research labs. Our research labs were on or adjacent to public
institutions, universities, colleges. But because we were working with chemicals that had been there to
early back then that aren’t now. You have a lot of 1900s – they were doing things acceptable
environmental contamination from those chemicals. You don’t do that, and you don’t know about it until
somebody comes in and does an environmental review and they find it. Lots of money associated
with trying to clean up before you pass it off. Anyhow, just a lot of stuff that you learn in this
process, more than what you learn or really know. What it tells you is the complexity of managing a
government entity. Can’away from it. Government owns it. Human t just close it up and walk
resources, Merit System Protection Board comes into play when you try to dispose of people assets
and you don’t do it the right way. Financials of financial rules and regulations about how to close – lot
accounts, take care of unliquidated obligations, budget and appropriations money – how can you
use it and validate that the money was spent the right way. Lots of issues around that. What I
quickly discovered was that you can’t do it yyou got to rely on your people, be able to leverage ourself,
resources, requires you to communicate so that they understand what they want, what your expectations
are and how you’d like to see things done. Been valuable to me – my division chiefs knew me from
experience but under that crisis situation we had to deal with new things like how we help people.
Changed some things. I learned (a) complexity and
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“What I quickly discovered was that you can’t do it yourself, you got to rely
on your people, be able to leverage resources, requires you to communicate
so that they understand what they want, what your expectations are and how
you’d like to see things done.”
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“I learned (a) complexity and (b)
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