But it is also true of insiders, who need to learn that the view from the top can be very different from the view that they were used to as the head of a department or a region.
Picture a new boss who comes in to head the sales department of a high-tech company.
They include a former chief of the Australian defence force, two former navy chiefs and a former head of the defence department.
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Hired in 1986 to gather memorabilia for Carnegie's 1991 centennial, he stayed on after the festivities, first as a solo act, then as head of a four-person department.
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Thomas Van Flein, the governor's attorney, said it was appropriate to complain to the head of the department about a trooper the Palins believed posed a threat to their security.
My high school, being a wholly owned subsidiary of the Phys Ed department, was run by a head coach who delivered a steady stream of county championships, making his staff untouchable.
Being hairless has become identified with the idealization of youthfulness, explains Professor Susan A. Basow, head of the psychology department at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa.
It may be too much of a risk, according to the head of the Louisiana Health Department.
This week, the United States took its first step to address the problems with the arrival in Baghdad of Paul Bremer, a former head of counter-terrorism in the State Department, to replace General Jay Garner as head of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq.
The group includes a political scientist, the head of an African-American studies department, an English professor and a former city attorney.
According to these sources, Freeh's initial request came after one of his top aides, Bill Esposito, informed him of a conversation Esposito allegedly had with Lee Radek, head of the department's Public Integrity section.
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Burton wants a 100-page report from Charles LaBella, the outgoing head of the Justice Department campaign finance task force, and a memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh, which say there should be an independent counsel campaign finance investigation.
D. from Northwestern University, Robertson was a professor and head of the marketing department at Wharton from 1971 to 1994 before developing international programs at Emory University and at the London Business School.
D. from Northwestern University, Robertson was a professor and head of the marketing department at Wharton from 1971 to 1994 before developing international programs at Emory University (where he was also dean of its Goizueta Business School) and at the London Business School.
The new head of the US defence department has arrived at a markedly tense point in the US-Afghan relationship.
Perhaps he should ask the head of the Department of Transportation whether there is a requirement to repair federal highways and build new ones.
Yet a January 2010 Impact Study by the federal Department of Health and Human Services that compared Head Start participants to a control group found that virtually all gains in vocabulary, math, and other skills realized by Head Start children had dissipated by the time the students completed the third grade.
In the spring of 2010, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) called for a greater role for the Department of Defense in national cybersecurity, a call that the head of USCYBERCOM, Gen.
But Pepperdine law professor Doug Kmiec believes when Gonzales became head of the Justice Department, he may have encountered a common problem in the attorney general's office.
The Pentagon has tried to nominate James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, as a key player in the interim government, but some at the State Department are said to be appalled at the notion of putting a former spymaster in a foreign government.
In July, Jacobs, a 31-year-old American, took a new job as deputy head of the public relations department at Italtel, the Milan-based telecom equipment company.
Paul Bremer, a former head of counter-terrorism at the State Department, will be senior to Jay Garner, the retired American general who was hitherto America's top man in the country.
In 1955, Croft joined the newly launched ITV network, landing a job as head of scripts in the light entertainment department at Associated Rediffusion, which then held the franchise for the London area.
Michael Chertoff, the head of the Department of Homeland Security, is thought to have a reasonable shot at the post.
"There is no evidence to suggest they have, " John Watson, head of the HPA's respiratory diseases department, said in a statement.
Nils-Axel Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics Department at Stockholm University, documented a dramatic deceleration of sea level rise during the past 40 years.
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The "absence of vital organs made the postmortem examination difficult, " Gurmanjit Singh, head of the forensic department at Amritsar Medical College, said at a televised press conference Friday.
Kalin Mihov, a former head of Bulgaria's anti-drug police department, said it was possible Lara was kidnapped in order to warn Banev to stay silent during the forthcoming trial, the AP reports.
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