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Everybody on a team has something to contribute and you have to truly recognize and believe that. In Agency operations, things go wrong and you have to have backup plans. Also in the corporate world, whether you are selling a widget or consulting, competitors will surprise you.

Dealing with that surprise, keeping your cool when all about you are losing theirs, definitely came from Agency training. Another key skill I developed in the Agency was creating loyal workforces, which yield outstanding results. A big part of that is knowing exactly what you are asking someone to do. The more info you can provide to the more people, the better people can see and understand what was obscured. Cisco also had a great culture of charitable donation and emergency response work. The book outlined how businesses are suffering from IP theft from rivals companies and countries.

It generated a lot of interest in security circles, up to and including presentation overseas for Interpol. We want to provide the tools to mine big data, as that is unquestionably the major resource of this century. We have created free xPatterns tools to demonstrate how our technology can be used by the general public to mine both structured and unstructured data.

One tool is PubMed, that searches National Institute of Health databases, another is Presidential Election , which tracks election info in an non-partisan way. I was getting towards the end of my tour and the question loomed: return to CIA Headquarters for a job as a high muckity-muck, or stay out here and enjoy the sun? Jody had seen me in action and thought I could serve well in a leadership role.

I knew I could be a great advocate for them. Sign up for our daily newsletters so you never miss a beat on all things federal.

Marc Polymeropoulos: So this is the hardest thing for me really to talk about. I was unfortunately kind of compelled to go public about this because I was not getting the medical care that I really needed and sought.

I took a trip to Moscow in December of , and there was an event there that certainly changed my life. I suffer now from migraine headaches that never go away. On a good note is the agency has has relented after I did go public with my grievances and so I am going to the Walter Reed Traumatic Brain Injury Center for a month of outpatient treatment, which is really the place where I need to go.

Marc Polymeropoulos: It was in a hotel room in Moscow. Tom Temin: But at the first occurrence, you sense that directional quality of the radiation that other people have reported? But one of the key points on that is there was a big study that came out from the National Academy of Sciences which talked about their conclusion it was likely radiation microwave weapon that caused this.

And so the NAS study, I think, was really important in that it gave us a lot more legitimacy as we move forward. Tom Temin: And we interviewed Dr. Marc Polymeropoulos: Yes, I do. So I wrote a book, and one of my passions at the end of my career was mentoring. I made a lot of mistakes in my career, but I thought I was a very good leader. So I wanted to kind of put that forward to the general public.

In fact, most of my leadership principles, talk about how to deal with adversity and how to overcome failing, and really learning how to lead in times of ambiguity and crisis. So I hope people will be interested in this and I can pass on some of my wisdom that I learned over working in really dark places in the third world.

And I talk about the one principle that I believe in the most is humility. Tom Temin: And my final question is for those that might be considering a career in the intelligence community, and the federal government has recruiting, not so much recruiting problems, but talent skill acquisition challenges from time to time.

Marc Polymeropoulos: This is a fantastic question. So just leave that aside. Not only did I see the world, but experience different cultures, you get to serve your country. And I remember walking down the street and just seeing the silhouette of the American flag lit up at the US Embassy.

And boy, that was motivating to me. Thanks so much for joining me. Tom Temin is host of the Federal Drive and has been providing insight on federal technology and management issues for more than 30 years. Follow tteminWFED. Listen Live Schedule Sports. Artificial Intelligence. Ask the CIO.

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