Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

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A4 Response embedded in narrative above(b) relying on people to get things done.^ relying on people to^ get things done”^
A5 This one guy but this one guy who was ... he came into this field –^ I’m not going to mention names –^
by accident. A lot of us did, but the guy who was in charge at the time with no advance warning left.
And it was at a very sensitive time. The next guthe ladder was about to be screwed because he was y up
saying that the office was in good shape. So he found a guy to take over the program who had no
background in it. But he was the best guy who was available. He and I and one other fellow worked
togeI’m concerned, he became the definer of what we ther and we got this guy up to speed. As far as
do. He extended himself and so on. Anyway, he became the guy who let’s say took advantages,
opportunities, presented the opportunities to me and ... made it possible for me to take advantage of the
opportunities. It was never “thou shalt”. It was “why don’t you think about this?” or “this popped
across my desk yesterday it?” kind of thing. And then he was around when I – what do you think about
needed advice,resources as “I need somebody; I don’t have resources – not so much money
anybody who thinks like this and has this background. How do I go about that? Where do we
look?” And instead of saying “I’ve got the person for you”, he made it possible for me to find that
person myself. Now of course, that meant on the one hand he was putting the effort into subtlety
helping me find my own way, which is time consuming. On the other hand, he didn’t have to do
it himself, which is time saving. And I’ve since learned myself that there’s a balance there. You
don’t get to pawn these things off and get results free. Anyway, he was an extremely good example.
Combine that with a few examples of people who


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