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Elliot Richardson

The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

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Elliot Richardson is saying that understanding how to identify the main issue quickly was very helpful in his later work. This skill was especially important because he worked in big, complicated government organizations with many challenges.

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