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When you took over the helm as director, what major management issues did you have to deal with, kinda right away?… Read More

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Or was it all just great?… Read More

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Well, I don’t know if it was all just great, but I had been there, you know, for all those years. And I had worked with, our CFO was still the same guy. Our head of HR was still the same guy. And so they knew me, and we worked… Read More

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(laughing) I don’t know, I think they would say that I would always listen to their, you know, I don’t think I was over demanding, you know?… Read More

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What do you think they’d say?… Read More

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I think I let them run their own shop, so to speak. And if they were doing a good job of it, great. Read More

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Well, Ron Gilner was general curator for much of the time. Jack Grisham, we brought in. Jeff Etling was involved with reptiles, Mike Masick with birds. Bill Halston was involved with, it was kind of assistant general curator. Martha Fisher was involved with the hoofstock. Those were most of the… Read More

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And if I talked to them, what would they say about your management style?… Read More

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Golly. Read More

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And so I was surprised, you know. Read More

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Now when you were director, who was your animal, at the curatorial level, who were some of the names of the people that worked for you?… Read More

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I would never ask somebody to do something that I wouldn’t be willing to do myself, you know?… Read More

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I don’t know say how to say this in a good way but, especially, you know, for the veterinarians, you have a certain amount of skill, whether it be surgical skills or diagnostic skills, or whatever, that just come natural to you. I don’t know that you can, you know… Read More

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And sometimes they figured out better than what I had done, you know?… Read More

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We talked about your management style. Read More

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Would you say you had any tricks of the trade for managing people that you developed or evolved?… Read More

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I don’t know about tricks of the trade. Read More

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Or that wasn’t, you didn’t- No, I wanted to instill on them that that was important. You know, part of the residency program is I expected them to get at least two publications in, you know, while they were doing their residency. Read More

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I did not require that of any of the full-time veterinarians, but most of them did it. ‘Cause they know how you felt- Yeah. Well I don’t know if, because I think they, not what I felt, but I think they felt that way. You know, Eric Miller has published,… Read More

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And was it the same for your full-time veterinarians?… Read More