On the recordFebruary 18, 2022
If you are focused more on green naming things, than focusing on fundamentally getting to the nuts and bolts of the job that you are hired to do, that’s a problem in any time or in anyone’s experience.
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msnbc.comGavin Newsom: “If you are focused more on green naming things, than focusing on fundamentally getting to the nuts and bolts of the job…”
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Newsom emphasizes the importance of focusing on core responsibilities rather than symbolic actions.
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