Podcast
On with Kara Swisher
The author discusses his experiences in large-scale change initiatives, highlighting the importance of setting ambitious goals, embracing innovation, and building partnerships to achieve significant impacts. He uses various examples from his career, including successes and failures, to illustrate his points.
I wrote the book, Big Bets to make the case that big bets start with knowing the data and understanding issues deeply.
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The author discusses his experiences in large-scale change initiatives, highlighting the importance of setting ambitious goals, embracing innovation, and building partnerships to achieve significant impacts. He uses various examples from his career, including successes and failures, to illustrate his points.
I wrote the book, Big Bets to make the case that big bets start with knowing the data and understanding issues deeply.
To me, a Big Bets starts with setting a bold goal, immunizing every child, for example, or for basic childhood vaccination.
I take away from all of those examples, including some failures, both lessons learned and an absolute conviction that if we don't actually try to solve these problems, if we don't set the goal impossibly high, we have no chance of success.
The aspiration trap is what I think we just saw at the COP, which is, hey, we know we can't get language on phasing out fossil fuels, so what can we do and let's embrace all these loopholes to make it possible?
I wrote the book, Big Bets to Be Optimistic, and I have a whole chapter in the book that I titled Make It Personal
