Change but i was also tripping on potholes like everybody is. I was stuck in traffic. I was hearing sad stories of innercity people who couldnt get jobs or had to take two or three buses and the subway to get to school. So that was going abroad and writing a maglev train in shanghai where we went to another city. Subway connections to the train. The train was so fast we went to another city in 20 minutes that otherwise took an hour and a half by bus. So all of those things together made me feel this is a really Important Mission and i had already been talking to you. You were such a help in this whole project. I had already been talking to you about the need for a new vision for america because you have been putting forth a vision just at the end of the Clinton Administration when you are leaving office. Unfortunately the world changed in the 2000s. We have a lot of defense spending. We have a lot of other preoccupations and a financial crisis so we havent made the kinds of investments
And now im booked tv stranger program harbored Business School professor Rosabeth Moss kanter discusses transportation infrastructure. Shes interviewed by Rodney Slater former secretary of transportation from 19972001. Host Rosabeth Moss kanter, welcome. Guest thank you, secretary slater. Host and interested in getting to this book and not in our audience have the appreciation ive had in getting through some of the pages and following the storyline. Its a wonderful storyline. What i found found interesting if you find on trend started in the practice talking about leadership. Were you thinking about a book on leadership when you started or how did you get to that . Leadership is one of my big topics from a preoccupation and that was what i was going to do but i kept getting struck by this issue of infrastructure literally not only the facts and figures about what was happening in america and the sad state of much of our infrastructure, the need for innovation and change, but i was also