Bill Clinton and James Patterson on Collaboration and Cybersecurity

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🗓️ 5 June 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson discuss their new novel, The President is Missing, in which a fictional president fights a cybersecurity attack amid intense political dysfunction. The coauthors share their lessons for collaborating across disparate skillsets — “clarity on the objective” and “don’t be afraid to admit what you don’t know.” They also talk about their research into cybersecurity threats and how realistic their thriller scenario could be.

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0:37.0	Imagine a virus that infects every computer and electronic device in the United States
0:47.6	and then imagine a terrorist plotting to activate that virus just as the federal government awakens to the threat
0:54.4	and musters its resources to stop it. Except that it's happening in a dysfunctional
0:59.2	political climate as the president is being impeached. That's the plot of a new novel titled
1:05.8	The President is missing. Not only is the protagonist of the book a president, there's
1:10.5	one on the book jacket. Former US President Bill Clinton is the co-author and he teamed up with author James Patterson to write it.
1:18.0	All right, here we are.
1:20.0	Okay, we are rolling.
1:22.0	They sat down to talk with Harvard Business Reviews, editor-in-chief Adi Ignatius about
1:26.5	cyber security, leadership, and collaboration.
1:29.9	All right, so let me just say I've read the book and it's a lot of fun.
1:33.1	The collaboration worked out.
1:34.8	I'd love to start by asking you a bit about the collaborative process.
1:38.2	So could you tell us a little bit about how this came about?
1:41.3	Yeah, I are a mutual lawyer agent friend suggested we do it. I was
1:46.6	thrilled. I always wanted to write a mystery and never got around to it and I was
1:50.9	thrilled and
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