Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 143
Do they know your former director?… Read More
Do they know your former director?… Read More
Can I give ’em directions?… Read More
Why I, I just think it added to our education program primarily. During my, when I was first hired, I came a couple times moving in and stuff. And I remember my, my boss at the time said, Hey, the, the volunteers are having their Christmas party go to it. Read More
And since I’m one now and roving ambassador, I think they’re really important. They had a lot as, as when I go around and walk around and I do my four mile walk, I, I talk to maybe 200 people at times if it’s a nice day. And they always… Read More
Did, at the zoo, were there vol, we say docent, but volunteer programs?… Read More
I’m not sure I showed emotion. I don’t think I had enough empathy. I wished I would’ve been a better mentor, although a lot of the people that worked with me have been promoted to other jobs and stuff. So I guess I was, if I didn’t go right out… Read More
Yeah. When you came there, were they important to you to maintain?… Read More
Well, I think I was pretty good at communicating, but I, and I was decisive, but some people could say that I was somewhat cool. I wasn’t always open to all kinds of suggestions. I was judgemental maybe. And you know, I brought something, I am gonna fucking find it… Read More
Arrive early, travel to Africa as much as you can. Have fun with your friends. Show emotion, conserve with the big C that we’ll talk about later, love your spouse, et cetera. So I thought that was a pretty good description maybe of my man. I think she was being… Read More
I still had some of the same negatives and some of the same positives. You know, I, I’ve never been a good listener and my wife can tell you that, but, so I, at least I knew my faults and tried to deal with them as I could. Read More
Oh, I, I, from the time I was probably in San Francisco, I read a lot of management books all, all my life. And again, as I mentioned, one time Pa Peggy Burkes at the San Francisco got us trained in management by objectives. So I, I knew about planning… Read More
Well, just because you bring it up, how would you describe your management style?… Read More
Now when you come in, you have already started to think about philosophies of management or were you forming them as you were looking?… Read More
But then he said he used it for pizza parties, for the staff and stuff, but there was no accounting of it. He just took the money and then went in. So a lot of people lost their jobs. And so it was all new metro parks, not so much… Read More
Yeah. Or or Oh absolutely. Are You thinking of other things?… Read More
So was this by virtue of this building your first priority?… Read More
Well, thinking of staff, I have to add, the reason I got the job in Vern Hardenberg, my boss got the job, nine people lost their job in scandal. If you wanna go to a new organization and be successful, have the people before you be crooks and be a… Read More
So really turned the zoo around. We did a lot of other things to turn the zoo around in that time too. But that was a, that was a biggie. And again, had, it wasn’t just me either. We had complete support from the park commission and from my boss,… Read More
Took the crocodile exhibit instead of looking down into a pool, we went down and put glass in front. So you see the things underwater and I mean, so many changes we had in a restaurant to it. There was no elevator. We had an el public elevator to it. Read More
And so the, so you’ve seen an old time zoo when you come there?… Read More