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Bobby Inman
>Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 23:45:44 -0800
>From: Pierre Uszynski <[email protected]>
>There was some mentions that he spend some time in the private sector since
>"then". Anybody knows what he was doing?
Well, part of the time he was heading up MCC, the Austin-based research
consortium. Someday y'all can buy me a beer and I'll tell you the saga of
my 3.5 years at MCC, about 2.5 of which overlapped with Inman.
But as a leader I'd say his biggest strength was his incredible intelligence
and ability to deal with almost any problem. He never let *anything* faze
him. He was a good leader, too, giving MCC just the right profile in the
eyes of the people (corporate CEOs mostly) who were signing our sponsorship
checks.
Biggest weakness: trusting the wrong people. His "Chief Scientist"
underling was a joke and he let too many of the wrong people do too many of
the wrong things while they worked for him.
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