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Daniel Driscoll: “Originally they told us it would be 40 months until we could…”

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 17:34

And then kind of more specifically we're going to test them with these time based goals that they have to come up with. Like our new helicopter we're trying to build. Originally they told us it would be 40 months until we could fly a prototype [of the new helicopter]. We basically got all of the CEOs of these massive companies on board and said, you have 12 months, we want to sit in one and fly one. (17:34–17:38)

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