Summary of John Doerr Speed & Scale: Moving Leaders to Act on the Climate Crisis on Stage X | ASU + GSV 2022

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John Doerr, a venture capitalist and author of "Speed and Scale: Moving Leaders to Act on the Climate Crisis," discusses the importance of goal setting and how it can be used to help organizations achieve success in various areas, including the climate crisis. He also shares advice on how to create a speed and scale culture in an organization.

• 00:00:00 John Doerr, a venture capitalist and author of "Speed and Scale: Moving Leaders to Act on the Climate Crisis," discusses how his education and career have included working with entrepreneurs and innovators in the field of education reform. He discusses how public education in the U.S. is flawed, and how the Okr objective and key result tool can help to improve it.
• 00:05:00 John Doerr discusses the importance of goal setting and how it can be used to help organizations achieve success in various areas, including the climate crisis. He also shares advice on how to create a speed and scale culture in an organization. John Doerr is a mentor and former CEO of Intel. He is also the author of "OkRs: Setting Goals That Matter."
• 00:10:00 The video discusses how the five factors that distinguish successful ventures are "technical excellence, outstanding management, strategic focus on a large and unserved market need, reasonable financings, and a sense of urgency." The video then goes on to say that, although many organizations possess only a few of these factors, Tesla is an example of a company that has achieved success despite making one bad investment.
• 00:15:00 The video discusses the plan to reduce emissions to net zero by 2050, which includes the removal of carbon through various methods, such as forestation and mechanical trees. The video also discusses the need for policy and politics to be turned into action, as well as the need for investment in clean technology.
• 00:20:00 The video discusses John Doerr's Speed & Scale plan, which focuses on moving leaders to act on the climate crisis. The plan includes 55 time-bound measurable key results, and includes key results such as getting electric vehicles to be price performance parity with internal combustion engines in the US by 2024, and making climate a top voting issue in top 20 countries around the world.
• 00:25:00 The global plan, "John Doerr Speed & Scale: Moving Leaders to Act on the Climate Crisis on Stage X | ASU + GSV 2022", calls for universal primary and secondary education by 2040, as well as the reduction of carbon emissions by 8% per year. The plan is inspired by Jim Collins' book, "Good to Great", which defines leadership as the art of getting others to want to do what must be done. The book includes stories of 30 individuals, including engineers and business people, to illustrate the point. This plan is not meant to persuade people to go vegan or to buy green-energy products; it is meant to motivate leaders to take action on the climate crisis.
• 00:30:00 In this YouTube video, John Doerr, a venture capitalist and founder of the Startup Genome Project, discusses the potential for a "transition to a new clean economy" and why it has been under-appreciated. He predicts that, if implemented, this transition will save millions of lives, create new jobs, and help preserve democracy. He asks leaders in the community to take action on behalf of the climate crisis.
• 00:35:00 This video features John Doerr, a venture capitalist and one of the most influential people in business, discussing how much time it will take to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and how we need to move leaders to act on climate change.