Nothing gets done in Washington without a lot of meetings, and over the next few months we had a full dose. A memorable one came in late August in the White House Situation Room. Several minutes into my presentation Robin Cleveland and another OMB official walked into the meeting. Without even having heard the first part of my presentation, Robin interrupted me and expressed skepticism about the entire concept in general and my proposal in particular. She questioned whether Peter Mugyenyi’s model would work, even though she had never heard the details of what the model actually was. Her
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Diligence - There's a fine line between diligence and being an impediment to progress.
