Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 281
And sometimes they figured out better than what I had done, you know?… Read More
And sometimes they figured out better than what I had done, you know?… Read More
We talked about your management style. Read More
Would you say you had any tricks of the trade for managing people that you developed or evolved?… Read More
I don’t know about tricks of the trade. Read More
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
And was it the same for your full-time veterinarians?… Read More
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
And if they’re good at something, make them do that all the time, and it’s usually the stuff that they like to do. Just to go back a minute, you said that you believed in publishing, you published a lot. Read More
When you were doing, working with your veterinarians that were full-time when you were director or assistant director, or even your residents, did you instill in them or want to instill in them the idea that publishing was important?… Read More
Well, I like to let people, I don’t think I try to micromanage. I like them to use their talents, and I think I’ve realized that people are best at the things that they like to do. And if I can give somebody the stuff that they like to do,… Read More
We had some difficulties there, our manager wasn’t very good and I went in there and I, “All right, I wanna know, what do you like to do?… Read More
‘Cause I mean, you’re doing a lot of painting, and somebody else is doing tiling. You know, somebody else is working on masonry work. Do you really like painting, or would you rather be doing this or that?” And give the person the stuff that they like to do, and… Read More
What was your management style?… Read More
How would you describe it?… Read More
So development and fundraising has become a huge part of running the zoo, and so it makes sense to have a president whose primary responsibilities are fundraising. And then as director I did what, ran the zoo. You had, again just a quick question. You indicated the person they hired… Read More
You’re now the director of the zoo, 2002?… Read More
2002, correct. And you’ve gone from the first full-time veterinarian of the zoo to now the director of the zoo. We won’t say it was a meteoric rise, ’cause you moved steadily. Sure. Read More
If we needed to raise money, we had to get it, you know?… Read More
And over the years now, all those people have been added to the zoo. And so development is a big operation. And I talked about before, the Zoo Museum District that got established in 1972, which changed the zoo from just being supported by the city of St. Louis to… Read More
You don’t have to park on our parking lot, there’s street parking, come in for free. You don’t have to buy refreshments at the zoo. All of that you can do and not have to spend a penny. But you can also, and so back then, about half of our… Read More