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Masters of Scale

Rapid Response: First, be human – Thoughts on the crisis from Reid Hoffman

Masters of Scale

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Startups, Business, Mindset, Management, Bob Safian, Entrepreneurship, Diversity & Inclusion, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Berman

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Can you blitzscale when the world grinds to a halt? How do you do right by your team AND your investors? What will the entrepreneurial world look like on the other side of this? In this special episode, our host Reid Hoffman, sits on the other side of the mic, contextualizing the crisis and offering a hopeful viewpoint. Interviewed by editor Bob Safian.

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0:00.0

You always have to pause to say, okay, let me be a human first.

0:05.0

Let me make sure that I'm being responsible to my employees, to my community, to my society.

0:12.5

Starting with that heart of compassion, starting with that heart of the question around

0:15.9

what is good for obviously the company and obviously good for the employee, but good for

0:20.2

the community, it's good for the family, it's good for the societies that we're in.

0:26.1

This one is a big one.

0:28.4

This one is perhaps the most mind-boggling of all the crises that I've seen thus far.

0:35.0

You have to be cautious between a month's storm and a three-year storm.

0:41.2

Everyone's working for it to be one to three months, but it's going to be challenging.

0:46.4

We really should not waste this crisis for learning with an education.

0:51.2

Education for kids, education for high school students, education for college students,

0:54.5

ongoing professional education.

0:57.4

Unfortunately, we've been saying, oh, government doesn't really matter.

1:00.4

It's like, yes it does.

1:01.8

And this is the precise thing.

1:03.0

It matters in lives.

1:04.3

It matters in jobs.

1:05.6

It matters in the whole functioning of the economy.

1:10.0

There's a possibility, every organization.

1:11.8

There's a possibility that you're just dead.

1:14.2

Don't try to get death to zero.

1:16.3

Try to figure out that within this universe of how do I play for an interesting life.

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