Joining us from new york John Dickerson, his newest book, the hardest job in the world the american presidency. Hes also a correspondent on cbs news. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. What surprised you the most in researching this book . And working on the book over the last, its hard to know when i started pit i either started 30 years ago or ten years ago or three years ago but in the intensive interviews that started three years ago when people including former president s and those who served in the white house ceos of start to question or start all the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask and what with the first question be and i assumed the traditional answers i would get would be id ask about character or id ask about decisionmaking in the one i got that surprises me that kept coming up again and again was what is their ability to build a team and
Yes that was the case recently in detroit michigan when Police Arrested 42 year old black man Robert Julian williams on a felony warrant for larceny after facial Recognition Technology fingered him was the perpetrator of shoplifting 3800. 00 worth of watches from a shy mellow store the computer said you did it so thats a wrap case closed looking down on lets go grab you know starbucks and maybe pepper pepper spray a few protesters on our way there but not so fast no no no turns out this Crime Fighting facial Recognition Technology has a pretty major fatal flaw the New York Times reports that while facial Recognition Systems have been dangerously used by police for more than 2 decades recent studies by mit and the National Institute of standards and technology or nist have found that while the Technology Works relatively well on white men the results are less accurate for other demographics in part because they lack of diversity in the images they used to develop the underlying database
Intensive interviews started two years ago including the former president s i would start all the interviews with the same question if you are interviewing a candidate for the presidency what questions would you ask and i assumed the traditional answers character, decisionmaking, and one that kept coming up again and again is what is the ability to build a team to manage people because everybody that i talked to come almost everybody was focused on the idea how a president put together a Management Team although we talk about it in campaigns as a single figure it is an organization a president is building and all those leaders i talked to any job the complexity and highstakes ghdecisionmaking that you have a team that you built that you tended to over that period of time because build wellfunctioning team with ongoing maintenance it was a surprise to theth extent that people focused on the management part of his job because they dont talk about that much withn campaigning. American pre
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