The catalog of basic management skills is long -- it includes motivating people, delegating authority, crunching numbers and smoothing over office conflicts -- and no boss can do everything right.
A perjury investigation by Mr. Soares's office has focused on Darren Dopp, the governor's former communications director, and whether part of his statement to Mr. Cuomo's office conflicted with his testimony to the Commission on Public Integrity.
He took his responsibilities so seriously, and clashed with his superiors so often, that he carried copies of the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 and the US constitution in his breast pocket and pulled them out during office conflicts.
They were upset at how the office's handling of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case was portrayed in the news media, but their concerns ran much deeper than a single case: they were concerned that internal office conflicts had found their way into newspaper articles; they said they were micromanaged; they said that people were worried that they had not received raises.
The former governor and his staff will not face criminal charges, but Mr. Soares said in his report that Mr. Spitzer's statements to the district attorney's office conflicted with that of Mr. Dopp and that the discrepancies would have been presented before a grand jury had the governor not resigned.
You allow office conflicts and slights to hurt, stress and adversely influence your behavior.
It's good that the FCC still functions well for this kind of important work, but a significant detail led to a bit of inter-office conflict that reminds us that this is still a sharply divided office.
That enthusiasm for the game hasn't waned, and it has gone a long way toward earning Friedman credibility among the sport's traditionalists, which, in turn, has helped him avoid the kinds of front-office conflicts that brought the downfalls of other data-driven executives.
In March 1897 President William McKinley took office as conflict loomed between the United States and Spain over the Spanish colony of Cuba.
The police said in a statement that Mr. Bush was under investigation for suspected misuse of a government credit card, breach of trust, abuse of office and conflict of interest "in connection with the alleged importation of explosive substances without valid permits".
