Bechtle

But Bechtle is paid to lie about unions, so I don't expect him to stop any time soon.

Sound Politics: The Times gets it right 2006

Then I would meet with management—or more precisely, the three captains who shared responsibility for running the symphony: executive director Peter Past-reich, who ran the business side; Nancy Bechtle, head of the board of governors; and maestro Michael Tilson Thomas, the music director, whom everyone referred to as “MTT.”

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Management included Pastreich, five of his key managers, and two trustees: Bechtle and Len Kingsley, who chaired the Labor-Management Committee.

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For my purposes, what I found most significant was that Bechtle and the board were giving him one more chance to negotiate.

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Bechtle was a great admirer of Pastreich, whom the board had firmly supported during the strike.

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The trustees were eager to avoid another debacle, and Bechtle in particular saw the value-creating possibilities of a negotiation skills program.

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I wondered: Had Bechtle and the trustees eased him out, or had Pastreich simply decided that after twenty-some years it was time to move on?

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Bechtle, the scion of a pioneer California banking family, had a commitment to the San Francisco Symphony that ran in her Hellman blood.

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When I asked Rosenberg to tell me a bit about the board, he pointed to Bechtle and said, She is the board.

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According to Bechtle, there is a “toxic ten percent” in the orchestra.

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