"I take responsibility"

[Occhidiangela]

Don't forget the lack of inter-agency communication ;)
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That has always been a problem at the federal level of interdepartmental communication. Always. This is not new. Some agencies are better than others about their cross boundary relationships. (The Coast Guard were always good at this, in my experience, in terms of working cross agency boundaries.)

You make the mandarins important enough, particularly when the directors are political appointees, and you get battles over who has what. It takes leadership to suppress the petty bickering and keep mission focus.

Same as in a large corporation.

Occhi