Gautam Mukunda... on "Picking Presidents" and leadership
Download MP3Abhay is joined by professor, advisor, and author, Gautam Mukunda.
He is the author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter and Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World, and has served as a professor at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts. By cultivating expertise as an advisor on leadership and strategy problems, with publishing widely on innovation, security issues, and synthetic biology, in being on the board of the UPAKAR FOUNDATION (a national non-profit devoted to providing college scholarships to underprivileged students of South Asian descent), and in being a former Jeopardy champion, Gautam is well on his way to achieving his life's goal: to have the world’s most confusing resumé !
(0:00 - 2:40) Introduction
(2:40) Part 1 - Systems, dispensability, seduced by unfiltered leaders
(18:53) Part 2 - "Standing down", Kamala Harris, risk mitigation
(41:59) Part 3 - Unlearnings and lessons, leadership style, advise for voters
(1:03:18) Conclusion
He is the author of Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter and Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World, and has served as a professor at Harvard, Yale, and Tufts. By cultivating expertise as an advisor on leadership and strategy problems, with publishing widely on innovation, security issues, and synthetic biology, in being on the board of the UPAKAR FOUNDATION (a national non-profit devoted to providing college scholarships to underprivileged students of South Asian descent), and in being a former Jeopardy champion, Gautam is well on his way to achieving his life's goal: to have the world’s most confusing resumé !
(0:00 - 2:40) Introduction
(2:40) Part 1 - Systems, dispensability, seduced by unfiltered leaders
(18:53) Part 2 - "Standing down", Kamala Harris, risk mitigation
(41:59) Part 3 - Unlearnings and lessons, leadership style, advise for voters
(1:03:18) Conclusion
