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Bennie Thompson: “Well, one of the things, we put 22 agencies together and we inherited the culture of some of the legacy agencies who…”

On the recordApril 25, 2013
Well, one of the things, we put 22 agencies together and we inherited the culture of some of the legacy agencies who were a little more mature versus the new kids on the block, and so we see the legacy agencies kind of being the thousand-pound gorilla sometimes.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson discusses challenges in consolidating agencies and their differing cultures.

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