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want our way with our idegetting the 75, 80 percent solution of your idea as – but sometimes
coming across is better than zero. And I really have been working I think on that in the last couple of
years too on finding that happy medium. I feel like I have a lot of great ideas. Yes, I realize that some
of my ideas are risky and people may not want to do them at this juncture – but if they take a small
modicum of the idea, that’s great. Something’s moved forward. And I feel more satisfied in that.
Before it was, if I looked all or nothing. If I didn’t get my position in the back 10 or 15 years, it was
fashion I presented it, I would have been disappointed. I think that’s just the nature of
understanding the laywhat you have – you can’t have e of the land and understanding verything you
want all the time.
Researcher: how do emotions play into that?
A4: I will tell you when I did it before, if you’d have gone back 15 years or so, if I didn’t get what I
wanted or my suggestion wasn’t taken, I wasn’t a happy person. (I would think) Who wouldn’t do
this; it’s very logical? Now I think I can see the logic sometimes behind it, and the politics behind it.
You get sort of the soft skills part of some of the SES ECQs (executive core qualifications) that you
maybe don’t get t o use all the time.
Researcher: what do soft skills mean to you?
A4: I kind of think of political savvy really get from reading a book. I don’t think you – you can’t
can teach political savvy – you can’t necessarily
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