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To: LindyBill who wrote (231640)12/15/2007 5:15:30 AM
From: unclewest  Read Replies (3) of 793790
 
Gates has another passage in his memoir describing what he found in the CIA when he became chief of staff to Casey in 1981. This is what he wrote in a memo to his boss:

As a result of the lack of innovative and creative personnel management, I believe this agency is chock full of people simply awaiting retirement: some are only a year or two away and some are twenty-five years away, but there are far too many playing it safe, proceeding cautiously, not antagonizing management, and certainly not broadening their horizons, especially as long as their own senior management makes it clear that [risk-taking] is not career enhancing.

Gates now has even more of that problem at DOD. His ability to identify and articulate a problem is impressive.

The lack of progress in managing the problem during his tenure makes him a failure.
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