There was a little competition creation in there, too. But we were able to reinforce that and so, to the
extent we had our cohstate, we over communicated with everybody and esive team, we would clearly
reinforced it, you’ve got machinery at work. And our priorities, our accomplishments increased each
of the six years I was there. Because people understood and they were connected, and I’ll say it
goes without saying they thought what they were doing was important but nevertheless some people
don’t get it done. And they saw other people getting theirs done; why can’t they get theirs done? Part
was our culture of productivity. Ipublished an article on this in Government t was nice to see. I – I can’t
remember what it was called, I did it when I came here – Government Manager, I think. We just
showed that we had the charts, and showed what had been done. But those four simple steps – the hardest
one is that cohesive team. Especially if you have to inherit a team. But working on that – otherwise,
you’re just in - fighting too much.
Researcher: so the emotional aspects of that being the hardest part would be the way the connectedness
or ...
R8: I’d say the hardest part is getting highpeople to work together in a collegial way. To show -powered
that everybody can win. We had people with overlapping responsibilities – at one retreat, they’d
go “what are you going to do, what am I going to do so that we’re not running into each other?” You can
be happy having three outfielders, but they can’t all play center field. They got to know, what are you
doing, what am I doing? Again, the more people see that part of this is so they can succeed; it’s not just
so the organization succeeds and it’s not just so the
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