Rapid Response: Embrace tension, w/former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hard challenges demand that we embrace tension. Former CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty argues that, right now, business has a responsibility to deploy what her new book calls Good Power — from putting skills first in hiring, as a way to close systemic opportunity gaps, to thoughtfully erecting guardrails around new technology. As an early pioneer in the AI space with IBM’s Watson, Ginni acknowledges the risk that disruptive technology can have on society. She offers her insider perspective on balancing what she calls “the teeter-totter” of marketplace demands with positive long-term impact.
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| 0:00.0 | Those of us in tech, we want society to really believe us that technology will make me |
| 0:06.2 | better. |
| 0:08.4 | I think with not just chat GPDII, you have to think about the up in the downside. |
| 0:13.9 | Trust is built by the drop with drawn in buckets. |
| 0:18.4 | If you go back in history, a bad thing that can happen with technology. |
| 0:21.6 | A few can make more and a lot can make less and so we're going to have to reskill people |
| 0:27.2 | to work there. |
| 0:30.6 | When my father abandoned us, my mother had no education. |
| 0:34.1 | Instead of us remaining on food stamps and no home, she was like this can't end this |
| 0:38.6 | way. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm going to find a way to get a skill. |
| 0:43.1 | It convinced me that aptitude and access are two different things. |
| 0:47.9 | And it can't be more true in this country right now. |
| 0:50.1 | And I just feel that we can create so much opportunity for so many people. |
| 0:58.2 | That's former IBM CEO, Jenny Rometti. |
| 1:02.6 | In her new book Good Power, Jenny argues that all of us have a responsibility to use |
| 1:07.4 | the influence we have to positively impact others. |
| 1:11.2 | I'm Bob Safian, former editor of Fast Company founder of the Flux Group and host of Masters |
| 1:16.4 | of Scale Rapid Response. |
| 1:18.4 | I wanted to talk to Jenny because taking responsibility for society increasingly falls on business |
| 1:24.3 | leaders. |
| 1:25.3 | Yet they often struggle with balancing marketplace dynamics and broader cultural issues. |
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