John Hennessy: The Leader as Principled Pragmatist Considers the Five Fates
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At the same time, with autocracy, oligarchy, and deeply divided partisanship the dominant political structures and multilateralism failing us just when we need global alliances the most, we are left with no clear path forward. After World War II, Dean of Engineering then Provost Fred Terman built the foundations of what quickly became Silicon Valley, still the center of American and global technological and business innovation. If it’s Stanford, you want to think about what the most relevant research is, and how you should think about curriculum and preparing students who are going to have to go out and grapple with these problems.” “From the viewpoint of a company like Alphabet, sustainability is a big issue, both in terms of livability in the Bay Area as well as globally with respect to climate change. As important as health care reform is, you can argue that climate change and sustainability is an issue of greater magnitude with a much longer time frame.” “I think carbon tax is the right solution. The inability of government to deal with entitlements is increasingly a burden on others, including investing in young people, who are the future, even if they do not yet vote.” “A harder problem that I don’t know how to solve is the fact that we’ve shifted more toward a “winner take all” economy.
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