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What Founders Can Learn About Excellence From MIT President Sally Kornbluth - YouTube

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Sally Kornbluth shares insights on scaling organizational excellence, maintaining meritocratic standards, and effectively managing boards. The discussion explores leadership strategies during crises, the art of giving balanced feedback, and navigating the evolving role of higher education alongside rapid developments in artificial intelligence. Follow along using the transcript. Sally Kornbluth shares insights on scaling organizational excellence, maintaining meritocratic standards, and effectively managing boards. The discussion explores leadership strategies during crises, the art of giving balanced feedback, and navigating the evolving role of higher education alongside rapid developments in artificial intelligence. Follow along using the transcript.

Sally Kornbluth is president of MIT and one of the best crisis leaders I've come across. Within a year of starting the job, she got summoned – not invited – to testify before Congress alongside the presidents of Harvard and UPenn. You know how that went. The others didn’t make it. Sally did, and she came out stronger. We spend a lot of time on sustaining meritocracy, which I think is one of the hardest things for any scaling CEO to pull off. Sally has a line I can't shake: if you take a lick of the lollipop of mediocrity, you suck forever. That's how MIT has operated for 150+ years. We get…

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