I write mostly comic novels. We have written seven or eight of those. This book is a memoir probably the only memoir i will never write. I dont have that much to say. May be going out on thin i. C. E. I dont think i will write another book than this one in part because it is so singular in nature. About two Extraordinary People who provided me with some amazing material for a book. Host what was it like to write the book . I sat down shortly after i buried my father last year i woke up in the morning with no intention of writing a book and started writing a book and i wrote a in 40 days. Was accidental there was no biblical collusion but when i looked at the calendar i saw 40 days had lapsed. I work hard to on my writing. It wrote a lot of it itself but we pretty much poured out. Host were you surprised at what poured out . Yes. I think the first sentence read Something Like im not sure how this book is going to turn out. I was indeed surprised at how it turned out. Host thats exactly
Guest that is exactly where i went. I went to Public School and go to ccd wednesdays and send that got my confirmation in 1955. Spring training. I would go to spring training to write some sort of article and play around and see the players in a relaxed setting. I wrote an article about his quest for the batting title and turned out to be an extraordinary story because i got close to his sister, his mother, his sister and his family, his sister was a big history buff so she came to concorde, my hometown and i took her around and we became friends as a result and in 1986 the year the red sox almost won the world series we were talking, i mentioned wade boggs had a broken rib and we didnt think the doctor was taking good care of him, we have to get him to another doctor, they said he should go to a different doctor and what happened is the mother called wade boggs, he told her he loved her and then she was killed in a car crash with her mother, his grandmother and mother were gone and fo
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We thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. Good to be with you. What surprised you the most in researching this book . Well, you know, in working on the book over the last its hard to know when i started. But in the intensive interviews that started three years ago with people of former president s and ceos id start the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask . What would the first question be, and i sort of assumed the traditional answers i would get is id ask about character, Decision Making. And one that i got that kept surprising me and kept coming up again and again is whats their ability to build a team, to manage people . Because everybody i talked to or almost everybody anyway was really focused on the idea of how a president puts together a Management Team because the job is though we talk about in campaigns as a single figure in the presidency its reel an
Intensive interviews started two years ago including the former president s i would start all the interviews with the same question if you are interviewing a candidate for the presidency what questions would you ask and i assumed the traditional answers character, decisionmaking, and one that kept coming up again and again is what is the ability to build a team to manage people because everybody that i talked to come almost everybody was focused on the idea how a president put together a Management Team although we talk about it in campaigns as a single figure it is an organization a president is building and all those leaders i talked to any job the complexity and highstakes ghdecisionmaking that you have a team that you built that you tended to over that period of time because build wellfunctioning team with ongoing maintenance it was a surprise to theth extent that people focused on the management part of his job because they dont talk about that much withn campaigning. American pre