So she was completely blindsided when in a performance review her boss suggested that she curb her enthusiasm during interdepartmental meetings.

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Napolitano also discusses her biggest leadership crisis, and failure, including how she turned this messy mistake into a catalyst for interdepartmental reform.

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An interdepartmental body for the co-ordination of EU policies has been created (though it is understaffed and over-reliant on the initiative of individuals).

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It was Ron Huldai, Tel Aviv's 13-year mayor and a former combat pilot, who, while London's Tech City was not even the subject of an interdepartmental memo, had got on with building a tech center second only to Silicon Valley.

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The undertaken study and analytical report as its result are designed to describe the state of arts education in Ukraine and more vividly define the ways of its improvement over the longer term based on interdepartmental interaction of all governmental and civic institutions concerned for the sake of further fruitful development of national culture.

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