Nancy Bechtol on the Importance of Communication





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Nancy Bechtol, director of the Smithsonian Institution's office of facilities management and reliability, has always put a premium on good communication. She talks about the reasons communication matters so much in her organization and explains why she's taking that effort up a notch in 2012.





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