You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure with Gillian Tett

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 26 June 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

How do you measure success? Maybe it's by money, job, or family. Whatever it is, there's usually something tangible to gauge. But what happens when the old metrics stop working? This week Ian Bremmer sits down with Gillian Tett of the Financial Times, who says the scales by which we evaluate everything from the global economy to what constitutes a monopoly is in dire need of a makeover.

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0:00.0	I'm not saying you should toss out the market theories.
0:11.4	I'm not saying you should stop looking at economics or the economy.
0:13.8	Quite the contrary.
0:14.8	They are one set of ideas as part of the whole, but not the only ones.
0:20.5	Hi, I'm Ian Bremmer, and welcome to the GZero World podcast.
0:24.3	It's an audio version of what you can find on public television, where I analyze global
0:28.0	topics, sit down with big guests, and make use of little puppets.
0:32.2	This week, I sit down with Gillian Tet.
0:34.3	She's chairman of the editorial board and editor-at-large for the United States at the
0:37.6	Financial Times. Jillian was an early predictor of the 2008 financial crisis and a great
0:43.1	person to talk to about the state of the global economy today. Let's get to it.
0:58.3	The G-Zero World is brought to you by our founding sponsor, First Republic.
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1:25.6	I have Jillian Tet, who is the head of the editorial board here at the United States,
1:31.5	The Financial Times. Good to see you again.
1:33.5	Great to be on your show.
1:34.7	You know, we always say that we value what we measure, right?
1:39.5	Are we measuring the right things?
1:41.2	If you could wave a wand and have us pay attention to different
1:45.0	numbers or numbers that we don't have right now, but we should have, what would they be?
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