Leading Change with Carly Fiorina

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speaking as a disruptive anonymous commenter (or just a disgruntled target demographic audience member, choosing to run toward the problems in your rhetoric, idc):
i recognize wisdom born of experience when i see it. i know i'm hearing the measured but self-advertising advice of someone putting their best foot forward. there is a fair amount of good advice in here (especially on resistors and naysayers) that i will immediately take back to my workplace and use starting tomorrow. i also hope that we hear more from fiorina at some point, via podcast or some other media.
now, color itsy-bitsy me 'recklessly willing to shock the system into cardiac arrest': this occasionally comes off as a bland word salad of movie script one-liners without having practically integrated the meal-actuating dressing that is the spicy, concerning, requisite pace of 21st century problem-solving.
i don't hear an appreciation for the ongoing acceleration and immediacy of common, global-scale problems that need to be solved across most major industries: and i'm not talking about that omnipresent need to pander to shareholders (which had come across clearly in the first five minutes of this podcast, but echoed like a tinnitus diagnosis after minute 10 with its constancy). these are massive, interconnected, globalized issues that were known and were without today's political climate obstacles and yet weren't prevented decades ago because some, as you say, ran away from those problems at their inception, or decided that "strategic patience" - instead of an assertive, early, curtailing hand - might enable a fix down the road.
20:45, i see the undertones of one rising conflict that you (consciously or not) acknowledge: heavily paraphrasing, "how can we preserve the credibility of the objective existence of that system of government (and its history) that gave birth to what has given me my career and renown, while also enabling the tailored marketing that needs to spin whatever facts it needs to spin to sell a product to beat last quarter's profit margin and win the shareholders?" obvs, we're all eyeballing AI's recent and future performance. and we all have seen how well america - as an institution - is holding out while extremist clickbait-for-business-profits media headers run rampant and a lack of yesteryears' enforced accountability and fairness in reporting has left younger generations bereft of any reliable source of objective historical "perspective". yes: i, too, would like to see the private sector demonstrate a commitment to the preservation and longevity of this country and a semblance of its democracy while justifying this business model. my generation has seen no reason to trust corporate CEOs, and I am "consequences".
also, it's an older person's unique privilege to suggest that "today's young people..." while conveniently sidestepping one's own responsibility to - with perspective - acknowledge compassionately that many younger people will always naturally lack perspective (while believing that they have enough of it already). frankly, i'm not sure what the point here, is, especially when you admit to taking major career steps in *naivete*. kids be kids. young adults be young adults. and i know children with more perspective than the adults who can't see past the age of the precocious child in front of them have; unfortunately, those aged adults also have more of an inherent social responsibility to do and to be better than those children, and they hypocritically neglect that charge.
...we all know that high company turnover is, especially in the long run, very expensive. but internal company ladder-climbing is also notoriously hard to come by. industry takes severe, cutting advantage of employee loyalty: reducing its workforce and forcing permanently "temporary" workload increases with meager pay raises. anyone's suggesting that people should not job-hunt caters to that same irresponsible industry and gives them incentive to continue down this wildly slippery slope that's led to, e.g. the outrageous tipping industry, and workforce-wide burnout and loss of productivity. my advice? YT isn't here to speak to 'industry'; it's here with a multibillion dollar revenue-generating audience of a bunch of cheapskate, post-modern, under-40s. i'd speak hope and advice to them.
i agree on the fundamental use of 'problems' by politicians as leverage. it's irritating, the average citizen is aware and annoyed. but let's not romanticize how 'problems' lead to revolution by suggesting that it happens when the bottom "grassroots" and rises up against the top. it's when the grasping lower-upper class or upper-middle class start to lose wealth. you need educated, popular, well-spoken, well-invested, wealthy, charismatic individuals to convince everyone else that 'the british monarchy' or [insert wealthy, domineering overlord corporate/federal overlord here] need to be overthrown. none of our founding fathers were in a majority demographic in america at the time: they were influential, powerful move-makers. they were connected, often wealthy, etc. civil rights and women's rights were forefronted by individuals with connections and/or wealth from the beginning.
on the reverse side of the same coin of trust, i think you're disconnected to believe that "business" is trusted; the common citizen trusts business only a bit more than today's SCOTUS. as i said: all younger generations - "perspective" or not - see the facts of a career of 5, 10, 15, and 20 years trending in only one direction: less training, less onboarding, fewer resources, hostile leadership, suppressed wages, less promotion potential (unless you know someone who knows someone)... you tell me: do we trust "business"?
spoiler: no. "business" is seen as a Marie Antoinette: determined to have its employees at minimum wage and deny them access to safe facilities, PTO, and healthcare, too. people no longer have a stake in their labor; AI has stolen real labor to attempt to sell at great markup value some algorithmically chewed-up version of that labor. and companies are getting away with that theft, scott-free. how can any small business owner attempt a new t-shirt design, when a graphic AI can scoop that design up and repurpose it for millions of other products more heavily marketed by a larger business? (looking at you, kardashians.)
i agree that education has fallen short: congressional and state-wide funding cuts have destroyed the foundation of the future of our nation, and has arguably created many of the prevalent problems that you and i see. i'm privileged to be the child of two rocket scientist-turned civil servants, and to have enjoyed a public education while it was still something worth bragging about on an international stage. i should not be an exception; i should be a generationally outmoded median, a baseline: not a stretch goal.
my two cents. hope to hear more; also can't wait to see others on the docket of this podcast series~

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