Moses dismissed discussion and valued implementation over debate from his earliest career

Evidence

Challenged at staff meetings about some details of those of his ideas that he had presented, he responded as Bella did at Madison House board meetings, making it clear that he wasn’t much interested in long discussions. The ideas were good; what was needed now was to put them into practice. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 283

Categorization

• SEED: A builder psychology essay could trace how results-oriented contempt for deliberation plays out in megaproject governance.
• XREF: connects to: Moses regarded the human factor and public discussion as obstacles to suppress — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 323; Moses abandoned analytical work because he craved direct physical action — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 286; Young Moses discussed government obsessively but never money — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 331

Broader Connections

• Moses regarded the human factor and public discussion as obstacles to suppress #corroborates (0.90) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 323
• Moses abandoned analytical work because he craved direct physical action #corroborates (0.85) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 286