the energy crisis. Being trust to doing research and writing papers on myriad topics – I just learned so
much, but I had enormous opportunity to do that. I also had enormous opportunity to fail. And truly
some of my bosses gave me those assignments because they didn’t think I could handle them. I just
thought they were grand opportunities. So I was on details and they were very enriching, especially ones
at higAnd then of course they’re sending me to Harvard her level of agencies, and at the White House.
was great.
Researcher: if we were to pick one ...
R1: The thing that helped me the most was graduate school, there’s no question. It taught me how to
researchquickly. , how to reason, how to make decisions(^) Researcher: so it was the education that helped
shape your emotional intelligence?
R1: Absolutely. See, I was older got my degree so I was an older student. Its’ hard to – I was 32 when I
say how much environment and how much of it was going through of that was the educational
- any resource of any kind. I married very young and I grew up in a very poor family, had no access to
went to 5 universities before I finished my undergraduate degree. That may not be typical.
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R4 I think mentors were a big part particular mentor executive who I really admired – I had one –
who got stuff done and knew how to do it. And do it in ways that I as a young manager, I didn’t have
enough breadth or vision. So I think that exposure was important – I was just watching the guy above
me 2, 3 ranks or 4 – marveling at what he could see
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