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Daniel Driscoll: “If you look at the generals first, who gets to become a…”

Featuring: Daniel Driscoll, Republican | United States Secretary of the Army | National

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Breaking Calcified Bureaucracy with Daniel P. Driscoll, Secretary of the U.S. Army | The Agile CEO

Published | Video Starts at 08:42

I think he would echo a lot of these things. If you think, and just to make sure I'm hitting all of the classes of people and not leaving anyone out from the broken system. If you look at the generals first, who gets to become a general is often the person who has stayed in the middle of the system. What doesn't get rewarded is risk taking. Oftentimes what doesn't get rewarded is pushing back. (08:42–08:50)

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Asserts that Army generals are often those who conform to the system rather than taking risks.

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