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Rick Caruso: “Elected official's number one priority is to be reelected.”

Featuring: Rick Caruso, Founder and Former CEO of Caruso | California

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Rick Caruso Discusses Public and Private Leadership at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Published | Video Starts at 28:21

And to your point, which I think is a really important point that you have to understand if you want to be successful working with government, they are not compensated for taking risk. And generally an Elected official's number one priority is to be reelected. That's why if you don't care about being reelected or reappointed, but you just make decisions based on what's in the best interest of your constituents for your word, really amazing things can happen that makes Sense. (28:21–28:25)

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Asserts that the primary focus of elected officials is reelection.

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