to make everybody else be all that they can be use that old phrase – then you are going to have a – to
bigger impact.“I say that’s emotional intelligence understanding that the, if you go –
through life trying to make everybody else be all that they can be – to use that
old a bigger impact.”phrase – then you are going to have
A8 I’ve had a string of mentors. It’s interesting because I’ve only one time had a formal mentor that was
assigned in a formal leadership development program. But if I look back at folks that I’d count
as mentors from whom I’ve learned a lot, the number’s probably closer to 20 than to 1. And so
... you know, I’m not quite sure that these were all things – these were folks that I was working with in
shape, form or another say ‘that guy is doing something that’s very – and typically I would either
effective andbehavior’ but I was very fortunate to have a whole I should try to emulate that kind of
series of folks that I would say were very emotionally intelligent. My very first division chief
was the kind of guy when you were around with him the first thing you’d notice was at the time he
had about 400 people working with him. And when he walked around and talked to people, he not only
knew their names and what they did, he’d also be asking about their family. And so he had very
strong personal connections andthat was faked – it was something that was it wasn’t something
important to him and it was ‘jeez, I can’t remember how old your kids are now’ but he was genuinely
interested in what they were doing and home he had those kinds of connections at the same time – and
he was a hell of an engineer. He was perfectly capable of holding somebody’s feet to the fire that
hadn’t been doing what they needed to do or was drawing a proper conclusion. But he was really
good at enrolling people. Early on in that first
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