Surviving a Crisis During the Techlash

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 12 February 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Renowned crisis manager, lawyer, author, and television producer, Judy Smith, the inspiration for the TV show “Scandal,” joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what tech businesses need to know to stay on top of their reputation in an era of instantaneous news and activist employees.

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0:15.0	H.B.R. presents. Hi there I'm Azimazar and this is the Exponential View Podcast. Now Wired magazine is the latest to recommend
0:36.0	this show as one of the best technology podcast for 2020. So if you haven't yet, hit the
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0:48.9	each week. Now today I'm really excited about a conversation I had in London with one of the world's top crisis managers, Judy Smith.
0:56.2	Now Judy is a fixer who has been at the center of some of the defining scandals in America over the last few decades. She has helped individuals
1:04.7	like Monica Lewinsky and General David Petraeus, formerly head of the CIA, as well
1:10.4	at institutions like Sony, navigate his situations they could never have imagined they would have needed to prepare for.
1:18.0	Judy is a president and founder of Smith and Co, it's a leading crisis communications firm and unsurprisingly many of her clients
1:26.4	today are the leading technology firms and executives who are having to navigate the many different
1:32.2	flavors of the current tech lash.
1:34.4	As you'll hear, we recorded this conversation in front of a live audience and I started by asking
1:39.7	about the hit TV show scandal whose lead character Olivia Pope is loosely based on Judy.
1:45.3	How did Judy manage her own reputation as the adventures of this fictional counterpart
1:49.8	bumped up against her real life friendship with her previous employer President George H.W. Bush.
1:55.8	Judy, it's great to have you me this morning.
1:58.4	Thank you. Thank you so much to have me today.
2:00.8	Well, we are sitting in this beautiful room and I know that listeners won't be able to see it, but I want you to picture what's behind us.
2:08.0	It's the River Thames. It's a view over some historic parts of London. I can see St Paul's Cathedral. I can see parts of the city of London
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