The Ideal Team Player

Forensics

The next two days were filled with fighting fires and cleaning up at Oak Ridge, as well as planning for the new projects, especially the hospital. During that time, Jeff became so immersed in the business that he spent almost no mental energy thinking about teamwork and hiring, something that surprised him given the magnitude of the issue and how obsessed he seemed just forty-eight hours earlier. He was starting to get a sense of how the tangible and urgent demands of construction could crowd out more important matters. But he was determined not to let that happen to him.

So, as they were leaving a meeting with the Napa city planner, Jeff asked Clare to put together a list of all the former employees that VB had let go over the past ...