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Masters of Scale

Rapid Response: Rebooting global crisis response, w/ONE Campaign CEO Gayle Smith

Masters of Scale

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

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Gayle Smith is the CEO of the ONE Campaign, the advocacy group founded by U2’s Bono — and last year, she was tapped by the U.S. State Department to coordinate America’s COVID response and vaccine distribution globally. Her experience both inside and outside government gives her a distinctive outlook on how business can and should help on humanitarian issues, from Ukraine dislocation to climate change. She also shares lessons about effective advocacy: tactics pioneered by ONE that can be useful to any organization trying to generate impact.

Learn more about the ONE Campaign: https://www.one.org/

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0:00.0

Hi listeners, it's Reed. If you've ever felt stuck, if you can't get out of a rut or

0:05.1

over a hurdle, well, you're in good company. Every entrepreneur I've spoken to on Master's

0:10.1

scale has faced that moment at some point in their career. And so have most of the world's

0:15.9

greatest artists and creators. In fact, anyone who has ever tried to bring a bold, new

0:21.3

vision of life can probably relate. That's why I want to recommend another podcast that

0:27.1

will help you break out of the mold and cultivate a creative mindset. It's called Spark and Fire,

0:34.0

and it's produced by the same award-winning team that's behind Master's scale. Spark and Fire

0:39.1

is designed to fuel your creativity and innovation with epic stories and memorable takeaways from

0:45.2

creators at the top of their game. So take a quick moment right now to search for Spark and Fire

0:51.6

in your podcast player and follow the show. I've gotten a sneak peek in the some of their

0:56.7

upcoming episodes and trust me, you won't want to miss what's in store. Let's be frank.

1:05.5

The global response to the pandemic wasn't exactly stellar.

1:10.8

Now we're going to have this food security crisis and Ukraine. There is a lot of our system,

1:17.2

a lot of our international institutions that were not built to respond to the kinds of crises

1:22.4

we're seeing. Add climate change on top of that. So the opportunity here is to ask ourselves

1:32.1

is this not the moment to modernize and reboot some of these international institutions that we have?

1:41.2

Because we're going to see a lot more of these transnational threats, right? These crises that

1:45.6

sweep over the whole world and waves. Collectively we're not going to get there if we do a whole lot

1:54.1

of really good ones. My framework is how do we think about scale? Companies that do logistics?

2:02.8

If they can collaborate across a sector and provide logistical support, that's a game changing.

2:07.7

Are we going to join forces? Are we going to retool the systems we have? This is not an impossible task.

2:15.5

What's at stake for us is making sure that the world makes the right decision.

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