BBCNEWS HARDtalk January 28, 2022 00:51:00
So the people who come in to lead it, they come in for 4—5 years — it's not necessarily with the electoral cycle, timed to those four years — and they literally are there to take kind of big bets, take risks, but on big public problems. the way that they've actually organised their own institution is by welcoming risk—taking and experimentation, which you talked about, because civil servants make mistakes. but it's interesting how we reward risk—taking in the private sector. we allow the venture capitalists to brag about it, but as soon as a civil servant makes a mistake, front page ...