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Daniel Driscoll: “The federal government is bad, the Pentagon is worse, and…”

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 07:48

And especially in some of these, like the Army's big. Yep. 1.2 million people, right? 1.2 million people. About $200 billion. And we, I would say in the entire federal government, it would go. The federal government is bad, the Pentagon is worse, and the army is the very worst at being able to change our minds and act on it. So how are you. That requires like an operating system change. That's like a fundamental. Because what I've seen, you can have a charismatic, strong leader, like I'm a crystal, for example, come in, do amazing things, but not change the system. (07:48–07:55)

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