Patricia Bradshaw
Patricia Bradshaw
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It is now seriously time to look at a Goldwater-Nichols framework as we think about managing our senior executives. And, oh, by the way, the pipeline that feeds that.
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I've been gone six years and the rest of the heavy lifting got done.
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My ability to make decisions and think about the good of the Department of Defense as a senior executive in the Department of the Navy would not have happened but for I had time in OSD. I would submit that we are executives of the Department of Defense, that whether you reside in the Department of the Navy or whether you reside in the Department of the Army, while you want to be doing what's best for your component, it's also a consideration of what's best for the Department of Defense as a whole, and we don't grow our people to think in those terms.
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We have not, as a Department of Defense, in a deliberate way institutionally tried to manage our Senior Executive Service members. We have operated in a very decentralized way.