How great leaders innovate -- responsibly | Ken Chenault

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🗓️ 19 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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In times of uncertainty, leaders have a responsibility to inspire hope. Sharing hard-won wisdom, business leader Ken Chenault talks about what it takes to enact positive, enduring change -- and why it's more important than ever to invest in responsible innovation that uplifts people and centers equality and fairness. (This conversation was hosted by TED current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. We are in the middle of the great resignation.
0:10.3	People are leaving their jobs in numbers previously unseen, and the business world and organizations are having to adjust to all the ways the pandemic has upended our realities.
0:21.2	It makes leadership so crucial.
0:24.2	So in today's conversation from TED at BCG 2022,
0:28.2	business leader Ken Chenald sits down with Ted's current affairs curator,
0:31.9	Whitney Pennington Rogers,
0:32.9	to share his perspectives on servant leadership,
0:36.3	standing for values, and how to nurture culture
0:39.2	in this time of uncertainty.
0:43.8	I'm Whitney Pennington Rogers. I'm Ted's current affairs curator. And the guest who's joining
0:48.0	us now is not only a psychologically wise leader himself, but he looks to develop psychologically
0:52.9	wise leaders to put the
0:54.4	out into the world. From 2001 to 2018, he was the CEO and chairman of American Express,
1:00.4	and now he is the managing director and chairman of General Catalyst, a venture capital firm,
1:05.6	which seeks to develop organizations that put out positive change into the world.
1:09.9	He's also the co-founder of 110, which is a coalition of leading executives who have joined
1:14.5	together to upskill, hire, and advance one million black Americans in 10 years.
1:19.9	Please welcome Ken Chenault.
1:22.4	Well, thank you so much for being here, Ken.
1:24.4	It's great to be here, Whitney.
1:25.9	You know, you have a quote that you often say,
1:28.1	the role of a leader is to divine reality and give hope.
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