More than pipes and wires

Lex Smuts was my first manager in Purchasing. Coming to SDG&E from Sears Corporate Headquarters in Chicago and United Airlines, he was short on utility experience but long on leadership skills. He asked us to think about how we conducted ourselves professionally; to look honestly at what was good and what could be better; to develop our skills.  He gave us permission to ask “What if…….?”

Lex told us that Procurement Professionals had to be like Caesar’s Wife: above question and reproach in all that we do.  That was the first lesson I learned in my Procurement career. And the most important.