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Podcast: FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis
Episode: How Entrepreneurs Can Fix Government
Description: Mitch Weiss, Professor at Harvard Business School and author of We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems, shares his experience working in public office and using entrepreneurial thinking to solve significant problems. Mitch recounts his story during the fatal Boston Marathon Bombings. He was Chief-of-Staff to Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, at the time, and was responsible for implementing an innovative initiative to aid victims and direct funds to them efficiently. He also unpacks Public Entrepreneurship, a relatively novel concept, and stresses that governments need to emulate what works in the pr...