But what you've seen since then is a steady increase of companies really retooling their purpose and retooling the way they think about their goals to focus more on social impact. And what about the investing piece of it, because some of this is now-- if the employees were maybe the first reason companies started to make this shift,
Primarily among them is the fragility. We actually need to retool that machine, to focus on getting more value out of the things we've already built. A focus on maintenance,
And I'm an example of this. I had to retool myself. I mean, I've just spent the last year completely re-engineering my skills because I went out in the world and I discovered,
Model T was around they had like 15 million units sold over uh two decades but it was disc continued in 1927 and they had to retool the whole production line for like $250 million which is when GM ended up uh leapfrogging them and taking over market share and what Richard tedlo said was that since he you know Henry Ford was such a Visionary but
And so, I was thinking, wow, this is an important area to work in. And I started retooling to learn neuroscience and do neuroimaging, and even retooled to do clinical trials because I'd mostly been doing molecular biology research in my PhD years.
But what I'm trying to say is that you cannot rid economics of politics. They need to get retooled , if you like, and that takes time.
In terms of education, this is a wonderful scientist named Arturo Casadevall who's at Johns Hopkins now. So Casadevall is trying to think about how to retool science education and he's is by far not alone, there are lots of other people thinking about that.
So that was the biggest thing for me that changed. And I think it's still something that they kept retooling in the tour of how do we make this character that in the movie, we can empathize with her because we can zoom in so close to her, but how do we do that on a Broadway stage
At the same time she managed to raise a future DBA, and an astrophysicist, and a Swede. Her previous book, "Retooling ," emerged from her experience of seeing technology launched by an institution come back later to change it. And many of her other works she uses literature to get a phone call during the .
No question in 2015 when I did that interview that that was kind of an outlier. But what you've seen since then is a steady increase of companies really retooling their purpose and retooling the way they think about their goals to focus more on social impact.
They send a lot of soldiers into strange valleys in Afghanistan and Iraq that are not well scouted where you don't know what you're going to find. Think of all the projects that get off to a bad start or get retooled or need to be melded into some different
Another way of saying that, again, is gifts or medicine. And if you're not, then you really need to retool it.
You've got this tool kit. It's a little bit like doctors who go off every year for a week or so of retooling . It's that same kind of effort.
And so I think the key there is to make sure that we are always equipped with the skills that will enable us to thrive. And for some people, thriving will mean entering a new line of work, a steel worker that we helped to retrain and retool , so now he's in advanced manufacturing.
But what I'm trying to say is that you cannot rid economics of politics. But then during the transition period, you need some kind of social arrangement to help people to retool themselves to find new jobs.
Jesse Nichols: because they're short, fairly non-committal. You can get someone to write something like that--. Rainn Wilson: Yeah, you can dash one off, but then you start to dash it off and then you go, "Oh, this is trickier than it seems." And you start to retool it and retool it and strip it away and pare it down and think about it and find the right word. And it's interesting 'cause it's like a little Rubik's cube.
Sam Mendes directed it. And when we brought it over to the US, we sort of-- the show evolved and we retooled it. Right there, I think, Marc, you put it this way, that in England, the book was king, and in the US, the movie was more prominent.
And now I look and I think, if I'd known then what I know now, I might have actually retooled that.
fields, spreading issues of energy, waste, food, water, etc., and rethinking sprawl into a linear urban model and how we could use that linear urban model, retool essentially,