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Published podcast speaker
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15 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“You’ve also got a whole new category of threat to deal with because the cyber threats are real and potentially devastating in their impact.”
02 / recommendation
“Number one, you've got to prioritize because if you try to do everything, you'll do nothing.”
03 / observation
“The change makers don't really want anything to do with the policy makers because they just think they get in the way.”
04 / evaluation
“Those two skill sets are completely different. A lot of political leaders fail because they've failed to make the transition.”
05 / belief
“Number one, it's really hard to make change. What I learned about making change is that there's a certain rhythm to it.”
06 / evaluation
“You can't just hand everything over to the private sector because in the end, the public will expect the government to take account of the public interest.”
07 / evaluation
“We do have to accept that the Chinese system is presently run on different lines to our own and is overtly hostile to some degree. This is why it's important for us to retain military and technological superiority, even though I believe passionately that it's important that we leave space for cooperation and engagement with China.”
08 / evaluation
“Even though they would probably be very well intentioned towards the developing world, people in the technology sector think, "I don't know what I can do in order to help.”
09 / evaluation
“The whole reason I started this institute was because the quality of governance — of which leadership is a big part — is the determinant.”
10 / evaluation
“The truth is those skills would transfer to being a political leader. They're not the only skills you need because you still have to be a political leader.”
11 / recommendation
“What I learned over time is that the important thing is to put quality people into the core positions that really matter to you.”
12 / evaluation
“What happens a lot of the time is that people are elected on the basis that they are change makers because they've articulated a general vision for change.”
13 / preference
“" I said, "I want to see you because I've watched what you do in government and I want to learn from it.”
14 / commitment
“" In the end, the decision of whether you lock down or you don't lock down, you can't really leave it to those people because that's not their expertise.”
15 / evaluation
“We did the Good Friday peace agreement in Northern Ireland. It was only really in the second half of my premiership that we started to reform healthcare, education, and criminal justice.”