Rapid Response: Overcoming institutional hurdles, w/ U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
In the last year, Sarah Hirshland has had to face one daunting issue after another as the CEO of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee – each of which have required urgent, in-the-moment decisions. Most recently Sarah mandated that U.S. athletes be vaccinated against COVID-19 to participate in the upcoming Beijing winter games. But that’s just the latest of a slew of cultural issues she’s been tasked to act on. She’s faced pandemic disruptions, social action protests, sexual misconduct scandals, mental health stress, and more. Through all of it, Sarah has been motivating her team around an evolving mission to reflect not just where America is as a country today but where it’s going.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, it's Alex Morris, a star writer here at Massive Scale. |
| 0:04.1 | Every week on Massive Scale Rapid Response, you hear real insights from business leaders, |
| 0:09.5 | and many of you have said that these episodes help you make more informed decisions in fast |
| 0:13.9 | changing situations. |
| 0:15.6 | So we want to tell you about another fantastic business podcast that can help you stay |
| 0:20.4 | in the know. |
| 0:21.4 | It's called Business Daily from the BBC, and it's all about the daily drama of money and |
| 0:26.3 | work. |
| 0:27.3 | From the environment to the world economy, you'll hear all about the rapidly evolving |
| 0:31.4 | world of business on a global scale. |
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| 0:39.0 | wherever you get your BBC podcast. |
| 0:41.6 | Again, that's Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:46.8 | I saw her before she went out on the track, Oksana, go have fun. |
| 0:51.7 | Of course she then proceeds to annihilate the field, win the gold medal. |
| 0:57.3 | Beijing will be a very, very different games from what we saw in Tokyo. |
| 1:02.0 | So as we think about creating safe environments, the best way is to have everyone vaccinated |
| 1:08.5 | and to minimize the risk in a CEO role, you have to go in understanding that you're never |
| 1:15.7 | going to keep everybody happy. |
| 1:18.7 | What do we want the message and the legacy of these games to be and how is it going to |
| 1:22.8 | drive the future of sport culture in the United States? |
| 1:27.0 | This is our moment to set a new standard for environmental sustainability, to set a new |
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