Thank you for posting this link! This is a very interesting session. Tillerson is answering questions from students, sounded like MBA students. He got great questions, took them seriously and gave impressive answers. He touched on relations with Putin, climate change, his leadership style, commodity cycles, many subjects. He said he travels 60% of the time, all over the world. It is so refreshing to think of someone of his caliber as SoS. He has an engineering background. Wow, just comparing him to Hillary, or Kerry -- all I kept thinking is, the adults are back in charge!
The other thing I forgot, he talked about the Exxon Mobil integration, and the challenge of integrating cultures. He also talked about the critical importance of everyone in the organization working towards the general good of the organization. I am sure he is well skilled to define goals, communicate goals, and get people aimed towards them.
The problem is, he is used to such a high caliber of employee. In government, he won’t find that broadly across the organization. But certainly he could make an improvement. I don’t think those civil servants can just be let go for performance issues, not sure.