Tillerson Seeks to Lift Damaged Morale at State With a Pep Talk
- He urges staff to jettison Cold War thinking on world affairs
- ‘We’re all on this boat’ together, he tells department staff
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told his department’s 75,000 employees that the U.S. must leave behind Cold War-era thinking during an appearance aimed at dispelling anxiety about his intentions amid planned budget cuts and a slow pace in hiring for top positions.
“As things have changed we have not really fully adapted,” Tillerson said in a 30-minute address at the department in Washington that was beamed to U.S. diplomatic outposts worldwide. “I guess what I’m inviting all of you to do is to approach this effort that we’re going to undertake with no constraints to your thinking, with none.”