The Operator
Execution, delivery and performance, gets the hard thing done.
Peter Orszag reads as The Operator because disciplined execution follows him into every role. As Lazard chief executive he has restructured the firm with precision, and his earlier service as Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Obama showed the same results-driven rigour.
“To pivot to frontier technologies and higher education, expanding the frontier rather than just moving people closer to it. Good, that's right.”
“So, first, just to make sure everyone's level set on what the Chevron doctrine was and what the threat or what the issue is. One likely outcome if the Chevron Doctrine is no longer applicable is a lot more lengthy lawsuits because it did provide a way to at least keep the legal disputes in check to some degree because ultimately if the ag…”
“Yeah, and there may be something that's causal there. In other words, if you look back to the great leaders of the past, they always had a little bit of opacity. This perfectly free flow of information may actually undermine the ability to truly lead. No person is a hero to his or her valet kind of thing.”
“Yeah, I would agree. I mean, I think there are a whole variety of domains in which the syncing up could happen, but energy policy is certainly one of them.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Peter Orszag”
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