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delivering mechanisms. And I went back to the same guy and I said ‘look: everybody thinks that
I’m supposed to me the guy that cracks the whip. What I’m seeing out here is a problem that these
guys need help in laying out a schedule and getting their needs defined, and that my job should be
helping to do them as a way of making the case to get the time and the money that they need to do the
job.’ He said ‘you got it, if you go do tthat was a huge turnaround for me because ... walk hat.’ And so
into a room and everybody thinks I’m supposed to be the whip cracker and within a few days they
understood no, I’m not cracking whips on anybody until much later. The first job is to get a realistic
expectation of time, get the resources to do the job. Once we’ve signed up to do that job and we’ve got a
realistic twobe pushing on folks to meet the commitments they -way contract signed, then I’m going to
made. But it’s not just come in and beapeople. So those were probably the two earliest t up on
ones.
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A9 (supervise people ... but also in the way that I 5 second pause) I think mostly in the way that I
manage programs, and (agency name) is a highly technical organization: lot – so starting with the first –
of scientists, lot of engineers, lot of (guys and they get promoted up through the ranks occupation)
because of their technical skills, largely. And what we have found here at (agency name) is that very
few of them have the soft skills that are needed to be good supervisors. And they ... get into a lot of
troubpoint was our EEO (le – one of the offices that I managed at one Equal Employment
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