Lessons - Bridging Private Innovation With Public Problems | Keith Krach, Chairman & CEO of DocuSign

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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➡️ Like The Podcast? Leave A Rating: https://ratethispodcast.com/successstoryIn this episode of "Success Story: Lessons," we're joined by Keith J. Krach, former Chairman and CEO of DocuSign. Throughout the conversation, we delve into several pivotal topics:• Leadership Lessons: Keith shares how his business experience gave him insight into China's economic threat. This shaped his perspective on the need for American leadership as a diplomat.• The Right Fit: Keith elaborates on building the right team at the State Department to bring innovative solutions from the private sector. He highlights key appointments who helped advance his China strategy.• Hiring Missteps: Drawing from his business background, Keith discusses the risks of focusing merely on credentials in diplomatic roles. He shares lessons on understanding different leadership mentalities.• Growth Strategy: The discussion covers Keith's 3-pronged economic strategy - rallying allies, leveraging private sector innovation, and promoting democratic values. This drove progress countering China.• Purpose-Driven: Keith touches on the importance of moral clarity and speaking out against human rights abuses, to amplify America's moral high ground.➡️ Show Linkshttps://successstorypodcast.comYouTube: https://youtu.be/k5FzvfSNhGU?si=NKD0q5ylcCTFknE8Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/success-story-with-scott-d-clary/id1484783544?i=1000615525297➡️ Watch the Podcast On Youtubehttps://www.youtube.com/c/scottdclary

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0:00.0	Welcome to Lessons Episodes of Success Story, part of the HubSpot Podcast Network.
0:14.8	These lessons episodes will be shorter conversations with past guests, valued members of the success
0:21.0	story community, and myself.
0:23.4	They'll be focused on teaching you actionable, insightful takeaways that you can use to
0:28.4	upscale your personal and professional life.
0:32.1	You effectively brought in some of the top talent in Silicon Valley.
0:35.1	You applied that to an actual administration, and you brought them in, and now you're
0:39.2	actually solving problems at the speed, and with the lens that Silicon Valley exec would
0:46.8	look at a problem versus a career politician.
0:49.8	So that's something that can actually make incredible moves.
0:53.2	When you go down this path, when you move from private, you end public, and you move
0:59.2	from that into government, talk about the current state of China, of what they have under
1:08.4	their control, what they're trying to do.
1:10.7	How does that impact us, for example, even if I think about foreign investment and
1:15.2	to start-ups in the US, what do we have to be wary of, how do we fight back against
1:19.8	that?
1:21.3	Sure, I kind of had a chance to see it my whole life, because where I could see through
1:28.0	the years, through my dad's company back in Ohio and the Midwest, I could see that China's
1:34.9	weapons of mass production had devastated the heart of our economic engine.
1:40.6	That's small and medium-sized manufacturers.
1:45.0	When I was a vice president, General Motors, I could see if you built a plant in China,
1:48.5	you weren't just giving them the blueprints.
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