
Australia’s intelligence leaders in conversation
The National Security Podcast
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The Struggles of Managing a Large Organization
It's incredibly difficult to juggle both. The speed at which issues emerge and play out places a real strain on an organization like mine that is around 300, a bit larger than that. I've got brilliant people, all of them, I'd like to think. And they're very, very smart. But to manage that day to day workload and still have the bandwidth and the intellectual freedom and the courage to deal with those longer term harder, more strategic issues is really important. So we have to be able to do that while at the same time warning about the possibility of a terror attack or negative development somewhere in the South Pacific.
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