Leadership and Emotional Intelligence

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particularly for pline of work for 30 plus years. I had nothing to be eople who had been working in that
gained by it, but it just seemed to be the right thing to do. A lot of angry people, I had to deal with that
kind of stuff. It was tough, unfortunate that a lot of families were adversely affected. But it was the
right thing to do.
And the third thing would be my last job with the government, the (agency name). That was a chance
to build an organization, rather than dismantle ... (eight second pause) I found at the (agency name)
that there was a high premium paid on science unto itself. It clearly is an organization that has a history,
a national reputation of doing excellent science. The thing I tried to introduce there was a focus on
science as an enabler of resour(agency name). (Agency namece management in the ) is this big holding
company, has a mission of natural resource management responsibilities. Very clear connection
between the science plan and the resource management needs that the mission agencies had.
Before I left what I tried to was make a closer connection between the sciences being done over
here, and the needs of scientific information over there. And so I embarked upon a process of getting
the resource managers talking to the scientists and trying to align the science focus – to provide
informresource managers. Again you need to understand ation that would enable them inform the
this big holding company with multiple missions that sometimes even conflict. – a lot of disparate groups
The question was, how can the scientists provide information that would be of value and benefit to
the resource managers? The other thing that I think that was helpful was to – in talking about people
before – is to convey that objective, that vision to


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